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To: mitch-c who wrote (57073)	12/6/2001 6:59:01 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 70976

OT - checking everything When I worked as an engineer, I used to be amused when people would bring a troubleshooting problem to me with an attitude of "this can't be solved," as if the laws of physics had repealed themselves for their benefit. But it sounds like networks have gotten to a sufficient level of complexity that it can take real stubbornness to track down the problem. WRT Murphy Field, when I was in college some of my engineering student roommates and I were trying to troubleshoot a car electrical system, and after we had checked everything, it worked. Note that I said checked, not fixed. We didn't actually do anything to make it work. So we concluded that all that was required to make things work was to go through the formal proof. <g>