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OP Der Quibblemeister says this is a lousy mangled pretentious
metaphor. It falsely implies a machine made criterion of high accuracy.
Well, a lot of metaphors are pretentious. I wouldn't have thought it implied that high a level of accuracy, however. But what do I know?
well, some of us have been known to suffer from hypretension...
formerly known as etaoin...
OP And Fraunhofer learned to identify elements in solar
spectra by dark lines. Gotta go look that up.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:1jmIbFaQOdoJ:home.achilles.net/~jtalbot/spectra/Fraunhofer.html+Frauenhofer+dark+lines&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
I see I gave him too much credit. But still a nice piece of
work. Sorry about wide screen.
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