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One-Shot

James Blish

Publisher: Jovian Press

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Summary

You can do a great deal if you have enough data, and enough time to compute on it, by logical methods. But given the situation that neither data nor time is adequate, and an answer must be produced ... what do you do?
Available since: 04/11/2017.

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