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<DIV><FONT size=2>Thank you for explaining your usage of "Boolean
Catastrophe".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Normally that phrase is used to describe a host of errors in
sentential logic or a host of errors in circuit design resulting from errors in
the sentential logic calculus..</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>w.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=kmmos1@frontier.com href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">Kenneth
Marcy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:14
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Tomorrow's
storm ...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:04:59 Art Deco wrote:<BR>>
Kenneth Marcy writes:<BR>> <BR>> "So, at present, the biggest danger
from being out in the rain is getting<BR>> one's clothing soaked, which, in
an unattended worst case, might result in<BR>> a Boolean catastrophe, but
not radiation sickness."<BR>> <BR>> Boolean catastrophe? How could
a swarm of logical errors result solely<BR>> from getting soak? It
can easily happen by going to church or a cult<BR>> gathering, but not
usually by going out into the rain.<BR><BR>George Boole was the first
professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork, <BR>Ireland. On a December
day he walked two miles in a rain storm to arrive at a <BR>class at which he
lectured still wearing his wet clothing. He caught a cold <BR>and a fever,
which worsened to a pleural effusion, that caused his death 8 <BR>December
1864, at age 49.<BR><BR>George Boole was a precocious youth who, after being
tutored in Latin by a <BR>family friend, taught himself Greek. His fluency in
French, German and Italian <BR>won him employment as an assistant teacher at
16 to help alleviate family <BR>financial difficulties. By age 20, he had
opened his own school in Lincolnshire, <BR>England. He published his first
mathematical paper at age 24. In 1849, at age <BR>34, he was appointed to his
professorship at the then new school. He married <BR>in 1855, and fathered
five daughters before his untimely
death.<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR> List
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