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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: Measurement & Precision
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:18:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.121329.7384@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
- >The coarseness of your implements appear to be the absolute limit. The vision
- >to overcome this limit by use of a leveraging type principle (say) is not
- >forthcoming.
- >
- >It is this limitation in mental vision that is interesting, not so much that
- >it was an engineering example.
-
- It is interesting to note what you consider interesting.
-
- The point that it is an engineering example is quite important: it's the
- biggest difference between the caveman's decision that measuring small things
- is impossible, and all the modern-day problems you try to compare it to.
- --
- "the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
- the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
- disposed of." -- K. Eric Drexler
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