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Re: "Documentation by paper"

law@redhat.com:
> One of the interesting questions I'm working through right now is to
> figure out how much I should assume the reader knows.  For example,

how about, any term that yields more than 500 pages at Google can
be assumed to be common knowledge in the field.  like, "register
coloring" (with quotes) gets 572 pages.  well, if that's
considered an obscure technique, then maybe raise the threshold
to 2000 or so.
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