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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
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Subject: Re: Re: Could someone explain why FTL is illegal?  In small words?
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:05:41 EST
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>   And I admit that using Special Relativity to disprove FTL is like
> proving that
> 	     sin(x)
> 	lim  ------   =   1   
> 	x->0    x
> 
> using l'hopital's rule, which my calculus prof actually did. (you have
> to know the limit before you can take the derivative of sin(x))

Oh, really?  I thought all you had to know to take the derivative of
sin() was the sine-of-sum-of-angles formula.