"Sybrand Bakker" <gooiditweg_at_nospam.demon.nl> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 14:05:26 +0100, "Niall Litchfield"
> <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Next week perhaps we should move onto counting angels on pins :(
>
>
> IIRC that riddle was already resolved by the Doctor Angelicum, Saint
> Thomas of Aquinas, somewhere in the 11th century, so why redo the
> exercise?
>
>
> Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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Geeze, this one is easy, take the area of the head of a pin and divide by
the area an angle takes up and you get how many fit on a head of a pin. The
math is left to the reader.
Jim
Received on Sat Jun 14 2003 - 13:18:48 CDT
