On May 31, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Ralph G Selfridge wrote:
The sort of crazy results you can get if tolerence is not
identically zero
is a squence of numbers, each of which 'equals' its neighbours but the
first and last are not equal.
Paul Berry tells this story:
In an early talk Ken was explaining the advantages of tolerant
comparison. A member of the audience asked incredulously, “Surely you
don’t mean that when A=B and B=C, A may not equal C?” Without
skipping a beat, Ken replied, “Any carpenter knows that!” and went on
to the next question.----------------------------------------------------------------------
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