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From: rbj@icst-cmr (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: Re:  LPow correction
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Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 17:41:32 EDT
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	>>>	limit of x^x as x->0+ is precisely 1
	> This isn't a truth, it's a consequence of the definition of the system
	> as self consistant.
	
	Fortunately I don't subscribe to the school of thought that says all
	mathematics is simply rearrangement of symbols according to formal rules.
	As a physicist/engineer, the above limit has real meaning for me.
	So there.
	
Which came first the chicken or the egg? (The rooster :-) Would EE's ever
have figured out how complex arithmetic relates to reactance if some
mathematician hadn't wondered `What squared is minus one?'

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
	Let me do my TRIBUTE to FISHNET STOCKINGS...