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to: Roger Nelson
from: Miles Maxted
date: 2006-01-06 05:18:04
subject: Re: Creativity ?

G'morning Roger, 

 RN> Miles Maxted wrote in a message to Mike Ross:
 MR> I know 50 ways to measure a tall building with a barometer.
 MM> Care to share some of them ?
 RN> You could use the Nils Bohr method.  There aren't 50 ways,
 RN> but his methods would suffice.

You'll have seen my reply to Paul already ... my minor scratching 
around the quote suggests that Nils Bohr was the student involved 
- but I was more interested in dreaming up novel ways of 
accomplishing the task.

Any additions come to mind ?

:-)
 
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