The law doesn't operate on such a binary scale; "if we can't formulate an extremely precise distinction then no distinction can exist at all". If someone claim

The law doesn't operate on such a binary scale; "if we can't formulate an extremely precise distinction then no distinction can exist at all". If someone claimed to write an original work that was exactly the same as It, a 1200-page novel, nobody would accept that it was independently written, even if we can't exactly pin down the word count at which we draw that line.