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"You have to budget the number of fuzzy rules you use to control a system. It turns out, you can state the optimality principle in three words: 'patch the bumps.'"
- Bart Kosko
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| Pentavalent Nitrogen | ||
| A high explosive formed from nitrogen. |
| "By the way, what is that explosive-or is it something beyond Tellurian chemistry?"
"It's structure should be clear to you, although you probably could not prepare it upon Tellus because of your high temperature. It is nothing but nitrogen -- twenty-six atoms of nitrogen combined to form one molecule of what you would call -- N-twenty six?" "Wow!" Stevens whistled. "Crystalline, pentavalent nitrogen -- no wonder it's violent!" |
| From Spacehounds of IPC,
by E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Published by Amazing Stories in 1931 Additional resources -
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Thanks to Winchell Chung for this one.
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