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Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 12 November 2011 04:12:56PM 1 point [-]

Epicycles can give you arbitrary precision if you use enough of them... It is quite similar to Fourier transform.

My point is that in most cases you can disassemble a 767 into various colections of parts.