"toller" wrote:

You claim that the hardest softwood is harder than the hardest hardwood.
I find that hard to believe. Details please.

Reread this sentence:
:The hardest hardwood is some three times as hard
:as the hardest softwood, but the hardest softwood is some four times as hard
:as the softest hardwood.

I don't think you are paraphrasing him correctly.
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