Re: At Last! The voice of Reason!

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From: d... David Shepherd
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1990 11:41

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In article <30...@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> d...@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg) writes:
>Not literally an inconsistency, since "first" and "second" are etymologically
>unrelated to "one" and "two".  "Third" and "three" are related, of course, so
>one hopes that Dijkstra's lists are very short.

I seem to recall that they usually are,  as in:

  case 0: .... proof of case 0
  case 1: .... proof of case 1

  the other cases are left as an exercise to the reader


:-)

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