Re: Measurement & Precision

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From: Roger D. Nelson
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:39

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In article <1edlutINNrv8@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.021112.13489@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>, dabbott@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU (Derek Abbott) writes:
>=
>=Hmmmmmm, I don't think it's quite as simple as that. The whole measurement
>=technology itself has to be bootstrapped up, measurement standards reinvented
>=etc etc for them to be able to measure the positioning performance of the
>=motor.
>
>Does anybody else find it interesting that here Derek both commits the fallacy
>of his hypothetical troglodyte (if Derek can't figure out how to do it, it's
>impossible) and exhibits the behavior of his hypothetical "extreme skeptic"?

Frankly, no.

Roger

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