Jim Henderson wrote:
> Yep.  I'm actually having an argument with someone on another forum about 
> whether or not looking out the window can tell you what the weather's 
> going to do "in a few minutes"; he claims no because he can't tell when 
> it's going to rain where he lives.  So clearly nobody in the world could 
> possibly tell what the weather was going to do in the next 5-10 minutes 
> because he can't.

Well, you can look at that argument from two equally valid sides:  the 
mathematical, and the practical.  For the former, if there is any case 
where you can't, saying "you can tell what the weather's going to be 
like in a few minutes by looking out the window" is untrue.  For the 
latter, it's assumed to read "m (at least one, probably more) people, in 
n (at least one, probably more) cases" etc.

;)

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Tim Cook
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