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  1. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!tessi!george
  3. From: george@tessi.com (George Mitchell)
  4. Subject: Re: tabulation of primes
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug12.214839.17112@tessi.com>
  6. Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
  7. References: <9208101729.AA24006@gandalf.ssw.com> <1557@anagld.analytics.com> <Bstqr2.Lxq@cs.columbia.edu> <1992Aug12.152948.39350@news.th-darmstadt.de> <1992Aug12.171656.8755@tessi.com> <1992Aug12.194603.23527@news.th-darmstadt.de>
  8. Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:48:39 GMT
  9. Lines: 7
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  11. graef@rs5.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Graef) writes:
  12. >[ . . . ] There is also a group, which worries
  13. >about `reductio ad absurdum' proofs.
  14.  
  15. I would recommend that anyone worried about the rigor of reductio
  16. ad absurdum enter a field of study other than mathematics.
  17. -- George Mitchell (george@tessi.com)
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