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Wyatt Started conversation Jul 20, 2007
Sorry, this might be a stupid question, but it has been bothering me for a while. How is it possible that A412886, for example, could consist of one paragraph and credit nearly forty researchers?
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Primeval Mudd (formerly Roymondo) Posted Jul 20, 2007
I think it's because it's part of a university jobbie and everyone's been credited with everything. C817
Just a guess though. They might have taken one letter each or something.
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Elentari Posted Jul 20, 2007
One letter from each researcher - it'd be interesting, with hootoo researchers being what we are - to see what you'd end up with...
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jul 20, 2007
I believe they were all originally one collaborative entry (not a University project), credited to all Researchers who contributed, but they were added to and added to until it became necessary to split the entries. By that point in the proceedings it was too difficult to assign the correct Researchers' names to each individual entry, so everyone's name is on every Entry.
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U168592 Posted Jul 22, 2007
All the DE Entries are still up for grabs in the Update Forum too, so if anyone has ideas for improving them, I think you could add your 
there 
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