--- Shawn Burns <shawnb at stanford.edu> wrote: > The Vallista joke is the perfect place to insert the Engineer Joke Steve > alludes to: > > How many Vallista does it take to sharpen a sword? > Assume a spherical sword... No, this case does not involve a field. Assume a linear sword of infinitesimal width and depth. It is already as sharp as is theoretically possible. QEF.* -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] * Quod erat faciendum: 'Which was to be done.' -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com