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Babylon
With the basest of companions, I walked the streets of
Babylon.
-Augustine
Confessions, II, 3
the cray 21 mainframe computer at Argus had been instructed
to compare each day's harvest of data from Vega with the
earliest records of Level 3 of the palimpsest. In effect,
one long and incomprehensible sequence of zeros and ones was
being compared automatically with another, earlier, such
sequence. This was part of a massive statistical
intercomparison of various segments of the st |
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