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Re:The case of the 500-mile email by gjm11 on Sunday April 25, 2010 @06:37PM (#1293662)
A lovely story (which I urge anyone reading this to go and read; it's much geekier than it probably sounds). But wait: isn't there a factor-of-2 error right at the end, and doesn't that rather spoil it? Or am I missing something?
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Re:The case of the 500-mile email by CoreDumpling on Sunday April 25, 2010 @06:43PM (#1293670)
The author admits to taking some liberties with the story, which he clarifies here (you appear to be concerned about #8): http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
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