Re: CHAT: Parallelism
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 0:17 |
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dunn patrick w wrote:
> for instance, we
> remember a phone number like 666-1369 better than, say, 238-9820.
Well, 666 is a number that tends to be remembered. :-) But seriously,
that doesn't mean that those numbers don't exist, does it? They're
three identical numbers, subject to "compression", so to speak, as I see
it, similar to the way that file-compressors work.
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