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5 Sep 2024 21:26:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Knuth says so  
From: Tim Cook
Date: 22 Jun 2009 21:25:30
Message: <4a402f0a$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Units can be encoded as numbers. Well *everything* can be encoded as 
>> numbers. And numbers, of course, can be encoded as things.
> 
> Nope. Sorry. That jug of milk in the fridge there? You can't encode that 
> as numbers. No amount of numbers will pasteurize it either.

"Scotty!  Beam me up!"

or, "Encoding properties of mass for lightspeed transportation across 
distance"

or, "Overcoming Heisenberg uncertainty issues in localised systems and 
reconstructing that data set in another position"

--
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.freesitespace.net


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