Adam Davis wrote:
>> >        Though use of a macro or an include file would allow this multiple
>> >insertion of the code without the insertions diverging. The problem of
>> >two copies of code and not knowing which is right is like the person with
>> >two watches never knows what time it is, but the person with one watch
>> >does. On the watch problem... If we average all the times on all the
>> >clocks in a time zone, do we end up with the correct time, or is an error
>> >introduced because my wife always sets some of the clocks (I never know
>> >which ones) 5 to 10 minutes ahead?
>> >
>>
>> That's why they invented the median.
>
>So those strips of vegitation between parallel inverse lanes of road actually
>help keep correct time?
>


Close, but not quite. The median is meant to help reject "outliers",
either those people who set their watches 10 minutes ahead, those
who cross over the centerline while talking on their cell phones,
[and/or the just plain rich].

I remember years ago driving in Rochester, where the median was the
center lane of a 3-lane high-speed highway. Traffic in both directions
could use it as a passing lane. It was great fun to roar into the median
lane, pass 10 or 12 cars at 60+ mph, and then try to find a hole back
into the slow lane before the guy passing from the opposite direction
at 65 mph got to the same spot. You can imagine how many outliers this
thing rejected.

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