From: utzoo!watmath!anabdallah Newsgroups: net.misc Title: determinism vs free will by jagardner Article-I.D.: watmath.3155 Posted: Sat Jul 31 00:54:15 1982 Received: Sat Jul 31 03:30:32 1982 I would just be curious to know how you can "use a Taylor series to extrapolate the behaviour of a function everywhere from its behaviour at a single point". Take the characteristic founction of th e rational numbers.