On 3/25/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
But these estimates have always missed quite how deep the pockets of the academic >literature have become. One million compounds in organic chemistry: pretty much a drop >in the ocean.
yes but most of those chemicals will only get mentioned in maybe one or two papers.
In the humanities, there are thousands upon thousands of secondary figures, about >whom decent papers have been written and published in respectable journals. How many >myths are there? And how many mythical characters?
Astroids have burned through a fair chunk so probably not that many.