(Bent C Dalager) wrote:

In article ,
Derek Lyons wrote:

Strange as it may sound.. When you exclude edge cases and highly
specialized craft... (I.E. the Clippers) you find my assertion
correct.

Wouldn't it be reasonable in this case to compare the best of 1770
with the best of 1870?

No. That 'best' represents an edge case, not the common case. It's
instructional to compare edge-to-edge, but it's misleading.

D.
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