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Heaps of fun

A Dinosaur Comics from a few years ago (passed on by Bert Vaux), on the Paradox of the Heap:

Notice: “at some fuzzy point” and “Language isn’t that precise”.

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One Response to “Heaps of fun”

  1. John Lawler Says:
    July 27, 2013 at 8:59 am | Reply

    “Adde parvum parvo, magnus acervus erit.”
    – Ovid

    (Quoted as the epigraph for Chapter 5,
    “The Second-System Effect”,
    in *The Mythical Man-Month”,
    by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.,
    where it is highly appropriate.)

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