On being the right size

[Martin Butterfield via Canberrabirds <>]

Of course, Wikipedia being what it is, it doesn't actually have a link to the essay!  This does:  https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRightSize.pdf.  

I have just read it (quickly - perhaps 'skimmed' is a better word) and rate it as well worthwhile further study.  As there are a couple of glaring malapropisms I assume the document has been scanned and a few errors were undetected, but they don't alter the overall thrust of the document.

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

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On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 09:27, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

When I was at school, more than 60 years ago, this essay  by JBS Haldane was in one of our schoolbooks.  I see that it is now sufficiently famous to be covered in Wikipedia.  (I must quickly reject any inference that I think everything, or even most things, covered in Wikipedia are appropriately described as famous.)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Being_the_Right_Size

 

From long experience I know that some mystery surrounds the question when a graphic qualifies as the ‘right size’ to enable reproduction on this chatline.  No matter, that is simply a test of one’s perseverance. Many offerings have been regarded as of insufficient importance to justify even a second attempt.

 

With respect to the below, this is a fourth attempt. That is not an indication of importance, given the trivial nature of the graphic.  I was simply testing the properties of the current filter, which do vary from time to time.  Now that I have (possibly) inflicted it on you, my question is whether anyone has thoughts on the subject matter.

 

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