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Letter: Pointillistic poser

Published 11 January 2003

From Martin Daughton

Feedback notes that in computer terminology a collection of forests is called a blob, and wonders what a collection of blobs would be called (14 December).

How about a Seurat?

Bury, Lancashire, UK

Issue no. 2377 published 11 January 2003

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