[R] Reasons to Use R

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Fri Apr 13 11:29:14 CEST 2007


(Ted Harding) wrote:
> On 12-Apr-07 10:14:21, Jim Lemon wrote:
> 
>>Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
>>
>>>A new fortune candidate perhaps?
>>>
>>>On Apr 10, 2007, at 6:27 PM, Greg Snow wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Remember, everything is better than everything else given the
>>>>right comparison.
>>>>
>>
>>Only if we remove the grammatical blip that turns it into an infinite 
>>regress, i.e.
>>
>>"Remember, anything is better than everything else given the right 
>>comparison"
>>
>>Jim
> 
> 
> Oh dear, I would be disappointed with that, Jim.
> 
> I was rather enjoying the vision of a "topological sort tree"
> (ordered by "better according to some comparison") in which every
> single thing had everything else hanging off it, and in turn was
> hanging off everything else!
> 
Sorry, Ted, I think Benoit Mandelbrot beat you to it.

Jim



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