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... mathematical language ; but the basic ideas are quite simple , and can also be expressed without much difficulty in ... mathematics is too difficult for them , are really quite simple to understand . Growing things may be of two kinds ...
... mathematical language ; but the basic ideas are quite simple , and can also be expressed without much difficulty in ... mathematics is too difficult for them , are really quite simple to understand . Growing things may be of two kinds ...
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... mathematical analysis , such as using Cross - Impact Matrices , can give spurious importance to what is chiefly only intuitive guesswork ; however , it should be pointed out that such mathematical techniques offer perhaps the only means ...
... mathematical analysis , such as using Cross - Impact Matrices , can give spurious importance to what is chiefly only intuitive guesswork ; however , it should be pointed out that such mathematical techniques offer perhaps the only means ...
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... mathematical analysis . This is , however , not particularly relevant to our purposes here . Gaming - Simulation Whereas a mathematical model represented a situation in terms of equa- tions suitable for manipulation by a computer , a ...
... mathematical analysis . This is , however , not particularly relevant to our purposes here . Gaming - Simulation Whereas a mathematical model represented a situation in terms of equa- tions suitable for manipulation by a computer , a ...
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