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In early computer days 20
years ago, they used to say 'Garbage in, Garbage out' all the time, now the phrase being
as out of fashion as a Basic Goto. They cleaned up their acT foR gooD, or else it's taken for granted.
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson: ''It is a remarkable thing, worth pausing to
reflect on, that we can pass so easily and in a dozen lines from molecular
magnitudes to the dimensions of a Sequoia or a whale. Addition and
subtraction, the old arithmetic of the Egyptians, are not powerful enough
for such an operation; but the story of the grains of wheat upon the
chessboard shewed the way, and Archimedes and Napier elaborated the
arithmetic of multiplication.'' [Ed.: British G.B. Shaw always goes
''shew'' too.] Not much point except 75 years ago and before, Chess was
referred to in scholarship it seems about 5 or 10 times as much. Now she is
referred to not mathematically or intellectually but economically once in a
while, a propos some irresponsible ecologically-ignorant capitalist or trader. // Sissa is at the top for originality. The first exception I take to Sissa is duplication of Rook squares. Actually, Sissa's reach to Nightrider squares is better than Nightrider's, because two-path is more interesting than hippety hop.