OT: Crazy Programming

[Patrick]

"Huaiyu Zhu" <huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:slrnaebfcd.g8l.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com...
>
> It is not a logical conclusion that if the final recipient has some
> limitations then the delivery system cannot help.  One of the main
function
> of scientific instruments it to transform signals from a range that is
alien
> to human senses to a range that is suitable.  Thanks to the
transformations,
> the *effective range* of our senses augmented with the instruments is
> fundamentally and substantially larger than that of the five senses alone.
> A mere extention, you say.

And yet no sensory extension, no matter how elaborate, will ever be able to
detect:

>  pi  :-)

To my mind, it is a perfectly logical conclusion that if the final recipient
has some limitations (eg. the assumption that all things "REAL" must be
entirely or partly perceptible), then the delivery systems indeed cannot
help.