7th April 2004, 4:20 PM
Well, not exactly good grammar, but lightyears ahead of ASM. Yes, I know it's distance, but that's exactly what that phrase MEANS, DISTANCE, as in "ahead in a race by 5 miles".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)