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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to
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Date: 1998/02/24
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In article <34F28B28.6C70707@ehpt.com>, Jonas Nygren <ehsjony@ehpt.com> writes:

> I read in the news that one guy had been rewarded for coming up
> with a proof for Fermat's theorem. He claimed that only the 100
> top mathematicians in the world would be capable of understanding
> his proof.

Perhaps someone could explain to those of us who are less inclined
toward math how the number who understand comes out to an even hundred :-).

Larry Kilgallen