Am 2018-08-10 um 18:38 schrieb Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>: > On 8/10/2018 5:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > >> And I still could smash my primary school teacher: When I asked "what >> happens if we subtract a bigger number from a smaller?", she answered >> "that’s not possible". :( >> She could have easily told me "you will learn that later" or just show me at >> the thermometer "look, we will get below zero"... >> But noo, better keep children dumb, otherwise they could outwit you. >> Sorry for ranting ;) > but with your thermometer example young Alan (who watches discovery channel > on a daily basis and later becomes a low temperature expert) would outwit you > as he would challenge you to subtract 300 from zero
There are a lot of people who can outwit my easily. So what? Adult Alan won’t need my book, because he can understand the source code of ConTeXt. Greetlings, Hraban ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
