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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: free Beyond the Limits program
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.162400.14555@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <JMC.92Dec12115854@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec13.200501.21769@vexcel.com> <JMC.92Dec13145900@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:24:00 GMT
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- In article <JMC.92Dec13145900@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >I don't like to continue these ever lengthening dialogs postings so
- >I'll just comment on the last thing Dingo says.
- >
- > In the more recent book, _Beyond the Limits, the authors
- > claim that the published results from the first book closely
- > match the historical experience since then, which is about
- > nas good a validation as is available now. >
- >
- >I don't know what this claim means. _Limits to Growth_ had no
- >scales on the axes of its graphs, so we don't know whether the
- >predicted catastrophes were supposed to have occurred by now.
- >Perhaps they are referring to some scales they kept secret from
- >the public.
- >--
- >John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
- >*
- >He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
- >
-
- As was pointed out in a discussion on this subject a few months ago,
- all x-axes in their plots extend from 1900 to 2100. This was explained
- in the book, though each of the numerous plots did not include the
- axis labels.
- --
-
- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
-