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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.
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the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of."  -- K. Eric Drexler

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