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From: alopez-ortiz@violet.waterloo.edu (Alex Lopez-Ortiz)
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: Re: Academic legend (was Re: Answers...)
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Date: 1 Feb 90 20:14:34 GMT
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In article <1990Feb1.084329.23934@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
>
>>I heard this story told at Oxford, where it was said to have happened at
>>Cambridge.  At Cambridge, do they tell it of Oxford?
>
>  This is definitely a Legend.

 Not at all, actually, a few years ago I was at a conference, and the
lecturer was talking about some measurable spaces, and proving this
and that, at the end of the lecture one of the attendants asked for an
example of such a space, and the lecturer haven't one, later on that
day it turned out that no such measurable space exists.

Moral : Never attempt an induction without working out the first
4 values.

Alex