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You provided sufficient . . . accurate . . . readily understandable information.

You encouraged further study . . . You win one internet for the best answer to a question.

Thanks. In my mind neverdem’s simple link to Wikipedia (see #8) was very possibly more excellent.

Are you perchance a teacher?

Although both my parents taught, one as a lifetime career and the other not, and three of my grandparents were teachers, my brother and I were both engineers. Tho my brother has done volunteer tutoring for a coworker taking college courses and for a child who wasn’t getting what the “math” book - he said there the book was so pathetic that there wasn’t actually any actual math in it - should have been teaching. I confess that this isn’t actually the first time someone has asked me the question, tho. and if you saw the FReepmail note I dropped to AnalogReigns about his screen name, I suppose that you would really think I was a pedant - if not pedantic.

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Engineer was my second guess...