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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by zem on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:23AM (#24978599)
the fact that you cannot identify the exact number of sand grains that make a collection into a heap of sand does not mean heaps of sand do not exist
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Re:How to publish Git repos that cannot be republished to Gi... by gspr on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:53AM (#24979172)
At least in the case of sand you can give examples of numbers of grains that don't constitute a heap, and numbers that do. And numbers smaller than the former will be non-heaps and numbers larger than the latter will be heaps.

For natural numbers, the lawyers seem unable to do even that. Sure, they might want to name some of the "illegal primes" mentioned in this thread as examples, but what will they say about those numbers +1? They're gonna paint themselves into a corner of ridiculousness nomatter what.

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