At 05:53 PM 5/18/04 -0700, Weronika Patena wrote:
Actually in math and is times and or is plus.
math major's jaw hits floor
If I have six one-dollar bills and five pennies, I have six dollars *plus*
five cents. I do not have 0.3 dollar-squared.
Or is or. Except when it's xor. (Hmm . . .
I trained to teach primary children (5 to 11), but ended up teaching
secondary (11-16). My training included teaching maths (note the s on the
end), and, although I didn't actually teach maths to primary children, I did
to secondary. In the UK, when being taught addition (+) the word and is
used.
I just reserved Eats Shoots and Leaves at library -- made me recall a
punctuation problem from years gone by -- includes 11 consecutive uses
of had.
Punctuate the following to make an understandable sentence:
John where Jack had had had had had had had had had had had a better
effect on the
John, where Jack had had had, had had had had. Had had had had a better
effect on the teacher.
I'm not sure about the first cooma in the sentence.
Which reminds me, I used to write this in autograph books at school:
11 was a racehourse.
12 was 12.
race and
12112.
Noelene in Cooma
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Hi All, I'm anxiously awaiting the answer to the had, had, had
problem. It just makes my head hurt G. I sent a copy of ESL
to my mother for Mother's Day and she's enjoying it very much.
I also saw Ms. Truss on TV the other day and she was very
funny. One question was about the history of
Hi!
One question was about the history of punctuation and
she said it came from musical notation and was first used in
Greek plays. They had marks to tell the actor when to take a
deep breath before a long speech (or a medium or small
breath).
Interesting. I never wondered about
