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In article <1162328516.413076.70320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard Henry <pomerado@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Oh, i don't know - if there's a theorem behind the T-34, it's got a fair
>> claim to the title!
>
>Eisenhower credited the jeep and the Higgins boats. Any math there?
>(Although at the time he made the statement, cracking the Enigma was
>still a deep secret).
>
>There is also some "math" behind the US industrial capacity, which,
>even when it produced an inferior product (such as Sherman tanks) did
>so in such numbers that they just overwhelmed the enemy.
And there was math behind the deployment of fighters for the Battle of
Britain, which made German pilots believe the UK had more airplanes
than it did (and in any case, they certainly had more airplanes than
their superiors in the Luftwaffe were telling them they had).
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Arturo Magidin
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