On 1/15/06, Bill Turner <dezrat1242@ispwest.com> wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> At 10:24 AM 1/15/2006, Peter Laws wrote:
>
>
> Thank you for validating my use of odd numbers of critical elements,
> i.e. "IL IL IL".
>
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> That statement caught my attention. What is desirable about odd numbers?
If you copy "IL IN", you can't be certain where I am. If, OTOH, you
copy "IL IN IL", you can be *reasonably*, but not 100%, certain that
I'm in Illinois.
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Peter Laws | N5UWY/9 | plaws0 gmail | Travel by Train!
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neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
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