Thanks, Bill. Yes, there were a few other things, but I put only enough
honey in the message to allow for one sting. I hoped to make it
memorable.
Jim
Bill Potts wrote:
>
> Maybe you're too tolerant, Jim. I found other things objectionable.
>
> For instance they say "... or about 1/100,000 times smaller ...", which
> literally means, of course, 100 000 times as big. Obviously, they meant "...
> or about 1/100,000 of the size of ..."
>
> "1/100,000" reads, of course, as "one one-hundred-thousandth."
>
> Some innumeracy there, I fear.
>
> (Apart from that, good email! <g>)
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