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From: fournier@cs.ubc.ca (Alain Fournier)
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Subject: Re: Simulated Annealing (QUERY)
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>For an application (and I cite this only because it's a simpleminded
>application--I did it with my own two hands!), you might check out:

More correctly, we did it with our own four hands.
"

According to my old friend M. F. Barnsley, simulated annealing is done
with monkeys' feet, not researchers' hands, no matter how many (I can't give
the exact reference for the Barnsley quote, but it's in either "Fractals *",
"The * of Fractals" or "Are Books About Fractals Self-Similar?").