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- From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
- Subject: Re: City Driving Observation #27
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.010048.5436@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov10.164103.8480@netcom.com> <MJD.92Nov10132907@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 01:00:48 GMT
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- In article <MJD.92Nov10132907@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] The One True Cross") writes:
- >
- > In fact, the lights turn out to be timed for *all* sufficiently
- >great speeds S that exceed some minimum magic value. You can prove this
- >rigorously, but it's quite clear: If you go fast enough, you can zoom
- >from one end of the city to the other before *any* of the lights have a
- >chance to turn red.
- >
-
- But had my friend said *that*, he wouldn't have been at all funny.
- Merely pedantic.
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- RICHH
- --correct, but pedantic
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