Kicky, I told YOU, you didn't tell ME, what I presumed the "string" to be. You told me my string was wrong. You told me that I should have "known" it was the (WRONG) string in 4 minutes time. That's why we've spent hours on this petty crap.
I said I thought it was a particular string (which you now accept, after denying of hours). I said I only counted 15, but I didn't say that, because I only counted 15, I didn't know what was being referred to (now, but not when I got the warning). I merely noted that it took me "the better part of the hour" to conclude that must be the string in question--which you ridiculed on the grounds that it should have been obvious in 4 minutes--10 at most.
If it's 16, fine, that wasn't my point--I said I only counted 15, but didn't say that, because of that, I didn't think that wasn't the string that Catratcho must have meant. One of those "16" is an intentionally empty "post," so there is some ambiguity as to whether Catratcho even attempted to count that.
If it's 16 (as I have counted), fine. If it's 15, (as I have also counted) that's fine too. I NEVER said that was the difference. My point was that it was not "easy" to ascertain what Catratcho had in mind. Even though you contradicted that, you have in fact just demonstrated that it is NOT "easy." Thank you for your help with that.