On 16 Jul 02 4:00 am, John Walsh wrote: > John Chambers writes: > >One of the cuter illustrations of this: There's an old test > >for telling whether someone is a scientist/engineer or one > >of those humanities types. You ask them "If you call a tail > >a leg, how many legs does a dog have?" > > > >The answer, of course, is "Four, because calling a tail a > >leg doesn't make it one." (At which point the humanities > >types all get indignant. ;-)
If a tail is DEFINED to be a leg then 5 but still only 1 tail not 5 since we have not DEFINED a leg to be a tail -- RJP - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.sedric.co.uk>. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
