QuickStudy: The Singularity

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LJK — 7/26/2006 2:28:00 PM (archived)

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QuickStudy: The Singularity

Computerworld July 24, 2006

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Before it became the province of
futurists, the word singularity had
significance in both mathematics and
the physical sciences. A
mathematical singularity is a point
at which a function is not "well
behaved." According to Wolfram
MathWorld, it "blows up or becomes
degenerate" -- that is, it stops
working in a predictable way.......

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