Perfection Is Normal?

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Truth number two titled, “Perfection is Normal”, talks about how. In one point of the koan, it talks about how it would be wiser to worry about a meteor crashing on your computer than to worry about a character being wrong in an email because of computer error. I agree that in some aspects of computers, we should not worry about whether if will fail or not and if it does then you compromise and find another way to do it When you send a bit, it detects if there is an error and corrects the error and sends it on its way. If you send a bit to someone, that person will receive an identical copy of your bit without error. I agree that if you send bits to someone that they will receive those bits without error. I do not agree that computers are perfect.

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