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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!agate!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Sunburn.Stanford.EDU!pratt
  3. From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
  4. Subject: Re: No Spin in 2 Dimensions?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.233017.19349@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  7. Organization: Computer Science Department,  Stanford University.
  8. References: <FRANL.92Nov16233347@draco.centerline.com> <17NOV199211293098@csa3.lbl.gov> <MATT.92Nov17124108@physics16.berkeley.edu>
  9. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:30:17 GMT
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  12. In article <MATT.92Nov17124108@physics16.berkeley.edu> matt@physics.berkeley.edu writes:
  13. >Note that there are other interpretations (e.g., the "many worlds"
  14. >interpretation) which are equivalent mathematically.
  15.  
  16. Who has a particularly short proof of this?  (There is a 14-line proof
  17. of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra on p.426 of last May's
  18. Am.Math.Monthly.  Is the above significantly harder? :-)
  19. -- 
  20. Vaughan Pratt              A fallacy is worth a thousand steps.
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