> From: Doug McIlroy > As Erdos would say of a particularly elegant proof, "It comes from the > Book," i.e. had divine inspiration. Just to clarify, Erdos felt that a deity (whom he referred to as the 'Supreme Facist') was unlikly to exist; his use of such concepts was just a figure of speech. 'The Book' was sort of a Platonic Ideal. Nice concept, though! Noel