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Old 08-October-2008, 08:05 PM
John Mendenhall John Mendenhall is offline
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Originally Posted by grant hutchison View Post
And although we may, with some effort, establish its correctness at the time of a particular observation, we cannot guarantee that it remains correct while we are not looking at it.

Grant Hutchison
The cat article is notoriously unstable, apparently due to random cosmic ray hits in the memory storage which go undetected until the next time it is read.
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