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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/01/2017 16:08, Alan Reading
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      <div dir="ltr">Roy Dyckhoff wrote:<span
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        <div><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">|</span> The novelty
          is that I reject his argument that there is no touch of<br>
          | greater than 5000 changes; I don't claim that there is such
          a touch, but<br>
          | this argument is evidently fallacious.<br>
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        <div>Presumably his proof that there is no true touch of length
          exactly 5040 with common bobs only is sound though?<br>
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        <div>I don't think I've ever seen the proof but it seems highly
          improbable that if there was a mistake in that (most important
          proof) that nobody would have noticed it by now...<br>
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    I believe that his main proof (about extents) is essentially
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        <div>I assume the argument that there is no touch greater than
          5000 changes to which you refer is something that he goes
          onto?<br>
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    Just so.<br>
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        <div>It would be interesting if you could share the paper
          mentioned with the list?<br>
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    Now done.<br>
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    See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9941616/Bobs-onlyGT.pdf">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9941616/Bobs-onlyGT.pdf</a><br>
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