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[LRZ]

Right way, wrong way? Was IAABO doing it the "wrong way" for years, then suddenly woke up and changed to the "right way"? That's the point: there is no objectively right or wrong way, only what is prescribed--for no discernible reason.

OK, I've made my thinking known. The field is all yours, Billy.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by LRZ

Right way, wrong way?

Thanks. Good point, my error (fixed it), how about just "way", not right or wrong, good or bad, just "way", or in your terms "prescribed" way.

Originally Posted by LRZ

Was IAABO doing it the "wrong way" for years, then suddenly woke up and changed to the "right way"?

Exactly my point, I don't know, it was an unannounced change.

What was "wrong", if anything, with the decades old way?

I'm very curious as to why.

Maybe it came to the mechanics editor in a dream?

It happens.

Friedrich Kekulé discovered that the structure of benzene contained a ring of six carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds after having a dream about a snake biting its own tail.