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Curious. Just today I asked this question of a snot-nosed, unwashed,
dishevelled, smelly piece of street trash leaning agaist a post, and golly gosh! I received a lecture on quantum mechanics (including the Schrodinger's cat example) together with the applications to chemical bonds and Reimann geometry and the solution thereto! Clearly Cereus Invalidus Trollus Semper Est sure aint very street smart. "Cereus-validus" wrote in message m... That only goes to prove that using hits on the internet as a source for statistical data is INSANE. That's almost as bad as asking people on the street advice on quantum mechanics. "P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message ... David Hershey schreef Welwitschia is often referred to as a tree or dwarf tree, which seems reasonable. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...a+tree&spell=1 ******** A tenuous line of reasoning! Welwitschia (only) gives 14200 hits Welwitschia plant gives 4270 hits Welwitschia tree gives 3110 hits Welwitschia car gives 2640 hits "Welwitschia plant" gives 322 hits "Welwitschia tree" gives 4 hits Going by number of hits and by this line of reasoning the idea that Welwitschia is a car is almost as likely as the idea that it is a tree. You might as well say that as 4/322 = 0.0124 that the idea that Welwitschia is a tree has a presence well below the 5% border and is statististically not significant. Actually the first listed hit for Welwitschia http://www.namibweb.com/welwitschia.htm has it pretty much right: " The plant resembles a woody carrot. " PvR |
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