At 12:01  -0400 2006/05/31, 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.

KEI once pointed out (in response to a question/complaint
on this issue from a lecture audience member) -

Every carpenter knows this truth. One does not produce a
set of equal length boards by using each successive cut off
piece as a gauge for the next cut, but rather one must
always use the original piece as the gauge for producing
(nearly) equal copies.

- joey

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