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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:47:38 -0700 (PDT)
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On Thursday, 23 August 2012 10:23:20 UTC+1, Laszlo Nagy  wrote:
> On 2012-08-23 11:05, Mark Carter wrote:

> You are very vague. "There is an error" - but what kind of error?

Assume that it doesn't matter.


> In some special cases, this can be a good idea to do.

Those are the cases that I'm interested in.