On January 25, 2019 at 16:48, davidcasemore said...
I wonder how long it took to dawn on them that if you keep dividing things in half it is never-ending.
You shoot an arrow at a tree. At some point it is half-way there. You can keep dividing the distance to the target by one-half forever. The arrow will never arrive at the tree. Wait, What??
I think it was Og The Great who said, while trying to mark something to cut it at an exceptionally fine line, "Eff it!".
I don't know when they decided it was "close enough for Jazz", but if you look at some antique furniture, they definitely varied in their approach. Some clearly didn't use precision for anything that would be unseen and some were more meticulous.
