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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: a third of ten
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Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 11:41:49 EDT
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> Please.   Everyone knows that 2*2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

Now hold on.  You're misquoting one of the great axioms of science,
Skillman's Axiom.
		 ____
		V 3     =     7

	... for very large values of 3.

Back in 1973 at Cornell was the first I had heard of this "axiom".  Has
anyone actually traced its roots back to its real origins?

[Skillman is now an astronomer somewhere in the northwest.]
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