On 9 Apr 2007 17:37:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Mason) wrote: >This reminds me of a question I was asked while "grubbing" for a grant to >take me through university: > >"Why is it absurd to say there are no two trees in the world with the same >number of leaves?"
I guess there are lots of absurd statements that are accepted as fact. I like the one about "no two snowflakes are alike" though. I suppose it depends on what level of detail they are measured - but the standards that were used when that statement was first made were insufficient to make that statement universally true. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
