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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, David Schwartz wrote:

> 	The standard of proof in civil cases is simply a preponderance of the
> evidence. Establishing that an idea is not obvious is evidence that two
> people didn't develop it independently.

I'm sure Newton would love this definition; Leibniz wouldn't.

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jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
Tel +44 (0)117 9287088 or 3317661   http://ioctl.org/jan/
"NOP" is a trivial implementation of an executable Z subset.