kirby urner wrote: > Historically, the use of the word "squared" in this context contains a > whiff of a moronic past, when the orthonormalists monopolized world > affairs. Fortunately those days are long over (and yes, we still say > "squared" when referring to 2nd powering, in the interests of backward > compatibility).
Kirby I am trying not to let you provoke me into the bad guy. You make it sooooooooooooooooooooo hard. My disdain for Kirby == Kirby's disdain for the past. But I thought I would not have to articulate that for a time, because I thought he was going away for a time. Is that time past?? Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
