"infamous" = celebrated & day of infamy

[Joel S. Berson]

At 3/15/2006 01:08 PM, you wrote:
> > from Joel S. Berson:
> >
> > >>>
> >
> > I was thinking that the various research papers honored by Ig Nobels are
> > being deemed sometimes disreputable, and of little _to_ no value.
> >
> > <<<
>
>
>Don't some other people say,  "...  of little _or_ no value."
>
>-Wilson

To me, this is not an enumerated variable, with a finite number of
possible values, but a dimensioned variable, with a continuum
(infinity) of values between little and no.  (And similarly from
little to, er, paridigm-shifting.)

Joel

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