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- From: nissim@mary.fordham.edu (Leonard J. Nissim)
- Subject: Re: Barbie update
- Organization: Fordham University
- References: <1992Oct8.041506.8739@galois.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Oct8.041506.8739@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@riesz.mit.edu
- (John C. Baez) writes...
- >I just found this on another newsgroup and thought it might provide
- >some more facts for our little quarrel about Barbie.
-
- [some of article deleted]
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- > Each talking Barbie utters four phrases, randomly selected
- >during production from a list of 270. The idea said is to make each
- >Barbie doll unique.
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- Why select randomly? C is about 216.5 million, so why don't they
- 270,4
- just make the first 200 million unique?
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- Leonard J. Nissim (nissim@mary.fordham.edu)
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