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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:41:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [TUHS] > I really
Message-ID: <20170327124147.7225318C085@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

    > From: Doug McIlroy

    > As Erdos would say of a particularly elegant proof, "It comes from the
    > Book," i.e. had divine inspiration.

Just to clarify, Erdos felt that a deity (whom he referred to as the 'Supreme
Facist') was unlikly to exist; his use of such concepts was just a figure of
speech. 'The Book' was sort of a Platonic Ideal. Nice concept, though!

	Noel