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In article <ad0to8$bg3$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz>, "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote:
>I'll re-phrase your question to illustrate the essential problem here. "Is
>rman faster than export" could just as well be phrased "is elephant dung
>yellower than lime juice on a blackboard. With wheels."
Well, I'm not exactly sure which is supposed to have the wheels--the elephant, its dung, the lime or the blackboard. Assuming the blackboard has the wheels, that both the elephant and the lime are healthy and normal, that the elephant has only been eating normal "elephant food," and that neither the board, the elephant, its dung, nor the lime has ever been written on or erased, as that could certainly affect the results, it appears to me that the lime juice is yellower than the elephant's dung. ;-)
I'm working on a mathematical proof of the above, but it'll take me awhile. I'll post it later... if not here, then one of the more popular science journals like Scientific American or MAD. :-) Received on Wed May 29 2002 - 07:29:35 CDT