Re: demonic numbers !

From: Fred Gilham (gilham_at_snapdragon.csl.sri.com)
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: 09 Feb 2005 14:53:46 -0800

Cameron MacKinnon <cmackin+nn@clearspot.net> writes:
> It's an expectations thing. No neophyte would be surprised if they gave
> a machine a batch of numbers (which were, in the person's mind,
> approximate) and the machine took the numbers as exact and produced an
> exact answer. A good portion of the population ARE surprised when they
> give machines numbers to add and the machines take license with the
> numbers and produce approximate answers.

I only have one comment about this: "heavy boots." 

-- 
Fred Gilham                                         gilham@csl.sri.com
If there is one consistent theme to be found in the great works of the
20th century, it seems to me to be the presentation of a doomed quest:
the search to find something capable of filling that great void that
has been left in the soul of man by the repudiation of God.
                                            --- Skylar Hamilton Burris

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