dougies, I never used the term "order of magnitude" in this context. It just
is not appropriate, and if you knew what one is you would know that as well.

btw, look up the term "asymptote" -- AND frickin' understand its meaning --
before you use it again.

Last week, in a discussion on another newsgroup, he said "Hull speed doesn't
have an
asymptote, unless it gets up to within the order of magnitude of infinity."
Cost a
fortune in spilled coffee, that one did.

DSK