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“I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, with four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”....Fermi once said to Dyson Recently some people took that seriously and showed that by truncated fourier expansions with four complex parameters, it is possible to draw an elephant, also with an additional fifth parameter, it is possible to to make it wiggle its trunk. :) That comment is quite relevant in some contexts seen in science though. :P scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/78/6/10.1119/1.3254017
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:06:12 +0000

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