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Kees J Bot wrote:

> As for the number being no higher than 3, I think it was "good enough"
> as a check for data diskettes.  In practise one is often happy with
> making something "good enough."  Anything more requires spending time
> thinking the problem through.  (In some software houses "it compiles"
> is good enough.)

See http://www.ai.mit.edu/docs/articles/good-news/subsection3.2.1.html

This helps explain why "Worse is Better" (unfortunately) ....    -Mike


