A little harsh surely!? What's wrong with, "A mathematician has offered a simple practical reminder that if you have enough bits of precision a curve can be modelled by one parameter“?
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The article makes it sound like an amazing revelation that you can 1. approximate a number of coordinate pairs using a function with a single parameter, and that you can 2. actually FIND that parameter. But that is what data compression has been doing since almost forever.
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