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Re: Badly Abridged
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Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:53:15 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.orgSTOPSPAM
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Franklin W. Cain <franklin_cain@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One at a time, from the lightest to the heaviest.
Great for the lightest people, but almost certainly guaranteeing the death
of the heaviest, or someone before, because of the build-up of damage. On
the other hand, if you go from heaviest to lightest, it's possible that
the incremental damage still won't be enough to make it unsafe for the
person at the end.
--
Matthew Miller mattdm@mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
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| (...) Let's do some number-crunching, to illustrate. Let's say that the rope will take a maximum stress-load of one thousand (1,000) pounds, cumulative, before snapping. Let's futher assume we've got the following people, identified solely by their (...) (20 years ago, 19-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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