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40 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 19 June 2014 05:56AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 22 June 2014 09:12:08PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for the explanation! It seems pretty clear to me that humans don't even approximately do this, though.