>The legends of my people say that Boole died a happy man, having been the
>first mathematician ever to conceive of a field of study with *absolutely
no
>practical applications*.
>>He now spins in his grave at 500Mhz.
>Science is welcome to take arbitrarily long times to find practical
>applications; I, for one, welcome research into "useless" fields, because,
>time and time again, we've found support for the claim that there *are*
>no useless fields.
yes, i agree completely, i did not impose any time limits either..
it seems that the modern computer has 'verified'
a lot of sciences
/pat