> > My current project, I'm happy to say, passes the test,
though
> > sometimes with a narrow squeak or on a technicality. 9 is a
close
> > one, and the only reason I get by 28 and 29 is that, from
what I've
> > got worked out now, there should be four books in the
series, not
> > three, five, or ten. Some might accuse me of violating 19,
but I
> > protest that it is not so. All the others I sail by with ease.
Woot.
>
> So you know the year the hay baler was invented (#25).
Impressive.

Well, okay... I read that, and similar questions as "Do you know
what year the hay baler was invented if hay baling is at all
relevant to your novel?" I confess that I don't know, off the top of
my head, how much gold actually weighs either. Though I
assume it's heavy. This is, however, the sort of thing I would
look up if I were going to have my characters cart truckloads of
gold around. I already checked with my sister on realistic
expectations for the speed/distance a typical packhorse could
manage in a day.