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Sunday, September 12, 2010

bridges that span miles of river, travel to the moon, and predict patterns of population change.

World Wide Words: Harry Lake found a questionable sentence in a full-page advert in
the New Scientist of 28 August: "Calculus has made it possible to
build bridges that span miles of river, travel to the moon, and
predict patterns of population change." It had never occurred to
him that bridges were so versatile.

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