Re: Life, GIPPP #2, and an example of pixel counting gone awry ?

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From: Gerald Edgar
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 16:34

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In article <1qnj79$h7f@network.ucsd.edu> fisher@inls1.ucsd.edu (Yuval Fisher) writes:
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>I have also said that I think that pixel counting 
>is not providing an estimate of anything in particular
>...

I agree with this.  It could be that the pixel counters are estimating
the actual area, but they have not provided a proof of that fact.
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