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Reply-To: Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>
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Date: Tue Dec  5 04:12:26 1995
From: Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: <xoi> and fuzzy roses
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
Status: OR
X-From-Space-Date: Tue Dec  5 04:12:26 1995
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> How would one express "that rose is fuzzily 1/pi more pleasant than yonder
> tulip"?  Or "this rose has the fuzzy-odor-pleasantry-value of the cosine
> of that rose, expressed in radians"?  Or even "this rose is fuzzily more
> beautiful than that rose by the amount of the circumference of a circle
> defined by the radius of the second rose"?  I think these would be
> valuable expression is *any* language.

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