Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Michael Schierl <schierlm-usenet@gmx.de> wrote on Thu, 27 May 2004
12:08:56 +0200:

> if you look at 4 stars quickly and then look somewhere else, most
> peoply know that there have been 4 stars. If you look at 5 stars and
> then somewhere else, most people are not sure if they were five or six
> stars.

4?  Isn't this number usually reckoned to be 5.   I certainly believe I
can instantly recognise 5.  There are 5 lines on a music notation staff.

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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
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