It Is Faster To Make A Four-inch Mirror Then A Six-inch Mirror Than To Make A Six-inch Mirror.

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It is faster to make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make
a six-inch mirror.
-- Thompson's Rule for first-time telescope makers
-- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985

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