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Re: LUCY: ``Yes, we have no bananas!"
Kathy McIntosh (postmaster@vineries.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 21:04:09 +0000
In article <3289792b.3697880@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, fmurray@pobox
writes
>what i find interesting here is that the ratio of the largest
>refuter's figure to the smallest refuter's figure is larger than the
>ratio of ed's figure to the largest refuter's figure...this becomes
>true if we take socrates "few hundred yards" to mean a figure above
>approx. 132 feet...as we use a larger value for socrate's "few hundred
>yards" (his phrase justifies using a larger value), the ratio between
>the largest of the refuter's figure and the smallest of the refuter's
>figures becomes a multiple of the ratio between ed's figure and the
>largest of the refuter's figures....
>
>perhaps something might be wrong with the refuter's figures??...
>
>frank
My God! I didn't know you needed a higher degree in convoluted logic to
read this newsgroup!
Couldn't you have put the above in plain English?
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Kathy McIntosh
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Robert Byrne.
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