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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 05:19:40 -0600
Date: 2002-11-07T05:19:40-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1036668002.19580.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnaskcmo.rf.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no

The word is "entropy" not "entroy"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: November 07, 2002 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: Where did /= come from?


> Programmer Dude wrote:
> >> Preben Randhol  --------------------  http://www.pvv.org/~randhol
> >> �.., chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being
> >> sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.�
> >>                             -- Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett
> >
> > My very favorite author and modern philosopher!
>
> I don't find him a philosopher, I just found this quote to be sadly
> true. ;-) On the other hand one could argue that since the entroy of the
> universe is increasing one need to keep using energy to reduce the
> entroy of say ones desk. :-)
>
> --
> Preben Randhol  --------------------  http://www.pvv.org/~randhol
> �.., chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being
> sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.�
>                             -- Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-07 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-06 16:12 Where did /= come from? Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 16:50 ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-06 17:25   ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-07  9:31     ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 11:19       ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
2002-11-07 11:23         ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 22:56       ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-08  9:43         ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08  9:53           ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08 19:35             ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-06 17:33 ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-06 20:17   ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-07  6:50 ` Matthew Baulch
2002-11-07  9:21   ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-08  0:23     ` news.bctel.net
2002-11-08  9:45       ` Preben Randhol
2002-11-07 14:58   ` Ted Dennison
2002-11-07 15:29     ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-07 22:57       ` Programmer Dude
2002-11-08 17:06         ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-11-07 15:03   ` Robert A Duff
2002-11-07 18:02   ` Vinzent Hoefler
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