Maybe it will help to visualize it as the way it might appear to the numerical equivalent of a large planeload of skydivers, chutes open, looking down on the geography trying to decide which state fairgrounds to land in, aiming for where their buddies are, avoiding where their numerical siblings have already landed.
PB
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4/23/2005
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8
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9
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13
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15
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50
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9
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GA F5
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4/23/2005
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5
|
14
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26
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30
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32
|
|
WV Cash25
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4/23/2005
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4
|
5
|
11
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12
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13
|
23
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PA Match
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4/23/2005
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13
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17
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27
|
33
|
36
|
44
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DC Hot5
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4/23/2005
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7
|
8
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10
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14
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23
|
|
DC Quik
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4/23/2005
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3
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5
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17
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26
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27
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29
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Ohio 5
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4/23/2005
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1
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26
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33
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34
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39
|
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NY Take5
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4/23/2005
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3
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6
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19
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21
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22
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Florida Fan5
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4/23/2005
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2
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16
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25
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28
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33
|
|
Colo Cash 5
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4/23/2005
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6
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9
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18
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19
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29
|
|
Cal Fan5
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4/23/2005
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10
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18
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25
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30
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39
|
|
MASS Cash
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4/23/2005
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4
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7
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17
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21
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34
|
|
Tx Cash 5
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4/23/2005
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1
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6
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17
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24
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27
|
|
ILL Little Lotto
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4/23/2005
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10
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23
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31
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34
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37
|
|
SC PM Cash
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4/23/2005
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1
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4
|
5
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29
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36
|
2
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NM RR
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4/23/2005
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3
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6
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22
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32
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33
|
|
Florida MM
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4/23/2005
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5
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15
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34
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38
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|
2
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They all have to have chutes of different colors to keep track of who's who landing where and when.
On the other hand, one of the blessings of landing spang in the time where everyone owns a computer and a spreadsheet a person doesn't have to settle for the way someone else puts a thing together. It can be stuffed into a grocery bag and carried off to some dark place, brought up on the screen and all the colors made into white and black, for those with limited imagination, or whatever colors happen to suit the occasion, for those who'd rather think of those numbers attending charity balls together, or whatnot.
For me it's a lot easier to see that chart up there as a lot of fields of corn, soybeans, cow pastures, wood lots and meadows, some numerical pilot of a Ford Tri-Motor flying across, instruments showing the numerical equivalent of a loss of oil pressure in two engines, looking for a place to land, than it is as a quilt. But in a constricted reality I can squeeze myself down into seeing it as a quilt if I must.
Jack