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Old 24th October 2007 | 17:16
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pilotmike
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Again, Captain_djaffar is mistaken. It has nothing to do with having 1 hour wrong either - that is simply a red herring, of no relevance.

Trying to convince us that
the results 34,14,46 are perfect
is simply pointless. The results are simply WRONG, and therefore far from perfect.

You simply cannot say that if two people, A and B take 48 minutes to complete a task, then each of them take LESS time to complete it individually. (airman13 would like us to believe that A takes 34 minutes and B takes 14 minutes to do the task individually, therefore they take a total of 48 minutes when working together). Life just doesn't work like that! Take a closer at my earlier dripping tap example to prove it.

This really doesn't warrant further discussion, as you are not accepting the principle that working individually takes longer than working together, as in the tap example.

I notice that your earlier post with incorrect calculations has mysterioulsy disappeared from this thread now!

Simply, inner asked to be shown the calculation needed, and after receiving some wild guesses which were wrong, I offered him the correct and complete solution in post #6, which your deleted post now has made post #5.

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