Mutt schreef in
Sounds like if you take the hardest of the hard, sugar, its
half again as hard as the softest of the soft, silver;

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No, on average it is over twice as hard. If you really look, you can likely
find pieces that show a difference of three times.
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Someone (not me) should send the string to Bruce Hoadley for an
expert opinion.

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So that he can explain again what the past fifty years of explaining has
failed to get across? I don't know Hoadley's temper but probably he will
regret having written the book, as the readers don't understand what it
says?
PvR