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  4. From: rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D. Nelson)
  5. Subject: Re: Measurement & Precision
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.213957.23782@Princeton.EDU>
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  11. References: <1dpg74INNp4n@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Nov18.021112.13489@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> <1edlutINNrv8@gap.caltech.edu>
  12. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:39:57 GMT
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  15. In article <1edlutINNrv8@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
  16. >In article <1992Nov18.021112.13489@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>, dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
  17. >=
  18. >=Hmmmmmm, I don't think it's quite as simple as that. The whole measurement
  19. >=technology itself has to be bootstrapped up, measurement standards reinvented
  20. >=etc etc for them to be able to measure the positioning performance of the
  21. >=motor.
  22. >
  23. >Does anybody else find it interesting that here Derek both commits the fallacy
  24. >of his hypothetical troglodyte (if Derek can't figure out how to do it, it's
  25. >impossible) and exhibits the behavior of his hypothetical "extreme skeptic"?
  26.  
  27. Frankly, no.
  28.  
  29. Roger
  30.  
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