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Re: approximate Huyghens' construcion

At 1:32 PM -0400 9/25/99, John Denker wrote:

1) It's OK to say there are an infinite number of contributions, but...

2) One shouldn't insist on infinity. A big part of real-world physics (and
real-world life in general) revolves around making sensible approximations.


And SOME mathematical physics realize that ALLOWING infinities can
lead to some totally bogus results.

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