In my haste, I hadn't noticed that, although the query did not contain
an ORDER BY, it did contain SELECT DISTINCT, which causes an implicit
ORDER BY. As we all know, ROWNUM is usually assigned when rows are
read into the cache, before sorting; thus the order of ROWNUMs in the
output is not sequential, and ROWNUM 999 could be the 336th row in
sorted order.
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