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Ron Hunsinger <hns...@sirius.com>:

>It doesn't? What would you think constitutes proof?
>
>I had a hypothesis ("a ringing telephone can erase a floppy disk"), I
>designed and experiment to test the hypothesis ("make a floppy with known
>data, use a disk utility to compute a CRC of the entire disk, make sure I
>have one of the original phones with the electromagnetic ringer, put the
>floppy under the phone, let it ring many times, verify that the CRC is
>unchanged, load the programs off the floppy, run them"), I performed the
>experiment and observed the results.
>
>Isn't that the scientific method? What method would you prefer?

One application of the scientific method, alone and in of itself, does
not generate proof.

They were mistaken, however, as you did prove something. Namely: a ringing
telephone will not erase a floppy disk 100% of the time. Now if you want to
prove that a ringing telephone will never erase a floppy disk, or will fail
to 90% of the time, I suggest you get to work.

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