On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:03 AM, Riccardo Bernardini wrote: > I understand that this was the result of a "high-level dialogue" > (whatever that means) among few (how many?) people. This reminds me > of the "the Emperor of China nose length" problem > > http://imaginatorium.org/stuff/nose.htm
I expected the end of the article to be something to the effect of "eventually, the emperor measured it himself and announced the result, and as a result we now know how long a cm is."