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From: spudnik on 26 Jul 2010 23:47 yeah, I'd forgotten about that, that the dragnet got all sorts of folks with similar names, most of whom happened to be of African heritage. (on the wayside, Africa is an Arabic or Muslim name .-) > So maybe some of the felons weren't voting illegally anyway. thus: iff as definitional seems to make some sort of sense, but what is wrong with "a raisin is a grape, if and only if -- that is to say for short, IFF -- it had been thoroughly dessicated?" I believe that the main definition of iff comes from Liebniz, his definition of proof as satisfying "neccesity & sufficiency," and that is a matter of using the words in a literate manner, in some way. (of course, if you can even prove just one of the two criteria, it is cake, at least in synthetic geometry .-) --les ducs d'oil! http://tarpley.net --Light, A History! http://wlym.com/~animations/fermat/august08-fermat.pdf |