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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Warm and Fuzzy? Koalas vs. Math
- Message-ID: <88846@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 13:34:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.210551.24399@galois.mit.edu> <1992Sep14.112820.90086@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: voros@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Joe Voros)
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- In article <1992Sep14.112820.90086@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, voros@vaxc (Joe Voros) writes:
- >>>>If you want something warm and fuzzy, raise koala bears.
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- >Since this is sci.math, which is noted for its pedantic tone, I must
- >state that koalas are *not* bears.
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- I think it was Spivak who footnoted his definition of "measure zero"
- with the "red herring principle": in mathematics, you can define what
- a "red herring" is without defining "red" or "herring".
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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