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Old 7th Jul 2004, 20:26
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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Extrapolation of graphs is always invalid. And as Feynman pointed out you're usually better off ignoring the last point on the graph as well - if the last point was any good they'd have been able to make further measurements, so the last point is probably lousy.
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