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Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) [OT]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Aitken)
Wed Aug 29 14:46:30 2001

Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:45:01 -0400
From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:39:33PM -0400, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> This is math. Observable reality is irrelevant.

This reminds me of a great joke I heard from civil engineer roommate
of mine:

  Engineers think that the equations are an approximation of reality.
  Physicists think that reality is an approximation of the equations.
  Mathematicians never make the connection.


--Jeff


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