Mike -
Somewhere during the discussion, from "finalrev"
an "i" somehow silently slipped away ...
On my machine (P4 3 GHz 4 GB ) I got
* using the (more conservative) break-off condition m >: q * n
(timex 'lrds qq') , (memex 'lrds qq')
0.00452488 14912
* re-introducing the (more stringent
Thinking that all these years (decades?) I could have written _.5 instead
of _0.5! I was wondering if anyone had used that form before in actual
code and I searched the forum posts; apparently, although there are pleanty
of instances of _0.5 nobody has used _.5 in actual code, at least in