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[geni]

On 3/25/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at 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.

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geni