OT: off-topic

[David LeBlanc]

This thread clearly demonstrates that Pythonistas will go to great lengths
to talk about virtually nothing at all LOL.

Greg, do you think there's an interesting positive number for "aussies win
the soccar World Cup"? <g>

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

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> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Greg Ewing
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 17:18
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: OT: off-topic
>
>
> Andrew Dalke wrote:
> >
> > Plus, all it really says is "interesting" doen't have a closed cover.
> > The values of interesting can approach but never be 0 ("uninteresting")
> > and for any positive value of "interesting" you can always find a
> > number which is less interesting than that.
>
> Seems to me it's pulling a fast one by not having
> a rigorous definition of "interesting". The only
> way to make it work is to define "interesting" in
> a way that's self-contradictory. So it's just your
> standard self-contradiction paradox in another
> guise.
>
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