On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:21:51 +0100, "RJH"
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"Chris Morriss" wrote in message
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In message , Kurt Hamster
Don't forget that the difference between 0 and 1 is greater than the
difference between 1 and 1,000,000.

Wrong again.

Is it?

Yes.

You're wrong then. Simple as that.

No, Stewart's quite right. 'Difference' is a precise mathematical
statement. The difference between 0 and 1 is 1.

Now if you had said 'ratio', that would have been a very different
thing.
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Chris Morriss

Ah, but things are different from numbers, at least to most people.

Quite so, but Kurt didn't say 'the difference between one thing and
nothing', did he? He used numbers.

What's
the difference between having no cd players and one? In terms of love,
expectation, cost, room space and so on. Between none and two? One and two?
Perhaps if I phrased it in terms of Audis. No, that wouldn't work.

Actually, we do have two Audis, and they both work. :-)
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering