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A pachyderm peculiar

FEEDBACK has been invaded by elephants. The proximate cause is our plea for help in calculating how many actual elephants would be required to achieve the 8000 elephant-standing-on-a-Mini-Cooper units of pressure used by UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph. Should we take into account Newton’s law of gravity and the reduced weight of the elephants toward the top of a 28-kilometre pile (2 June)? We are obliged to produce an exceptionally elephantine issue… a pachyderm special, no less.

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