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Old 08-22-2014, 06:18 PM   #61 (permalink)
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Perhaps this would be a good time to point out that I've been wrong before.
I thought I was once, but I was mistaken (bada bump - rimshot :-)). I wasn't positive, so I looked at the figure in the patent before I posted, and I definitely eyeballed that "several" that Phil quantitatively estimated as 10%.

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