Re: [OT] Re: 0xdeadbeef vs 0xdeadbeefL

From: Andries Brouwer (aebr_at_win.tue.nl)
Date: 07/08/04

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To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk

    On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:15:21PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

    > - Dirichlet Principle bites you anyway.

    Ah, it took me a few seconds to reconstruct what principle
    you are referring to.

    I am used to seeing "Dirichlet Principle" in a context where
    one wants to solve a boundary value problem for certain elliptic
    partial differential equations. (Then the principle states,
    roughly, that the unique solution is found by minimizing
    some integral.)

    You invoke what I am used to call the pigeonhole principle.

    Andries
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