On 02-25-98 Mark Bloss wrote to Mr. Rigor... 
 MB>  It's interesting you believe that we can get "close enough" without 
 MB>  the ideal of perfecting being something to which we use to gauge  
 MB>  "close enough" in the first place!  It is astounding actually; that 
 MB>  any person would assume we can grasp perfection - but we must 
 MB>  know of its existence; for all our getting "close enough" to it. 
 Remember when IBM engineers lined up atoms on a carbon matrix 
surface to spell out the letters in 'IBM'?  And more recent news 
that space itself has a unit, like mass has the atomic unit? And 
as a result, you can have an atom at one or two units from the 
next atom, but not 1.5, or *any* non-integer distance?  Thus it is 
that three adjacent atoms must form a *perfect* triagle. 
 
 Now, 'close enough' is as close as it *can* get. The Pythagorean 
debate over the perfection of form does indeed, have a basis in a 
system of integer math and real mass.  Perfect aint it? 
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