Question: It's nothing to do with fractals, but what does the word "corollary" actaully mean? And while we're on the subject, what's a "lemma"?
From: "Morgan L. Owens" <packrat@nznet.gen.nz> Reply-To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com To: fractint@mailman.xmission.com, <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Fractint] FOTD 18-06-02 (Squaring the Circle [6]) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:09:47 +1200
At 06:21 24/06/2002, Multiple Bogeys wrote:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguistable from magic?"
(If anyone knows whom wrote that, I'd be interested to know...)
Arthur C. Clarke...I thought everyone knew that :)
Corollary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Morgan L. Owens "Your mail seems awfully slow these days..."
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Andrew Coppin wrote:
Question: It's nothing to do with fractals, but what does the word "corollary" actaully mean?
corollary (kôr´e-lèr-ê, kòr´-) noun plural corollaries Abbr. corol. 1. A proposition that follows with little or no proof required from one already proven. 2. A deduction or an inference. 3. A natural consequence or effect; a result.
And while we're on the subject, what's a "lemma"?
lemma (lèm´e) noun plural lemmas or lemmata (lèm´e-te) 1. A subsidiary proposition assumed to be valid and used to demonstrate a principal proposition. 2. A theme, an argument, or a subject indicated in a title. 3. A word or phrase treated in a glossary or similar listing. P.N.L. -------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.fractalus.com/cgi-bin/theway?ring=fractals&id=43&go
Andrew Coppin wrote:
Question: It's nothing to do with fractals, but what does the word "corollary" actaully mean?
I think that's what a priest wears around his neck.
And while we're on the subject, what's a "lemma"?
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