On 7/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stathis Papaioannou</b> <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Such a being would merely have to be precise about the changes from<br>moment to moment, and accept that for practical purposes near enough<br>is good enough. For example, it wouldn't get very far in engineering<br>if it insisted on a tolerance of 10 decimal places when 3 decimal
<br>places would do.<br></blockquote></div><br>Oh well that's fine, then I just give him a quick English lesson: "The word 'same' means 'difference is small enough to be ignored in the current context'."
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