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 . . .
Well, dear one, you may rest that objection. The formula
requires it to be a X, not a plus.
The way we know that is the line, money times money equals
money squared
The next line says, money is the (square) root of (all)
evil
and therefore... etc., etc.
Clay
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On May 18, 2004, at 9:00, Clay Blackwell wrote:
Well, dear one, you may rest that objection. The formula requires it
to be a X, not a plus.
The way we know that is the line, money times money equals money
squared
My objection is to the first x, which *should have been* a +... I quote
from the
My objection is to the first x, which *should have been* a +... I quote
from the site:
First we state that girls that girls require time *and* money.
Girls=Time x Money.
Last I heard, and meant plus, not times. So, time and money
should have been written out as Time + Money. The rest
On May 18, 2004, at 20:53, Weronika Patena wrote:
Actually in math and is times and or is plus.
In my school days (40+ yrs ago), and was +, times was x, and or,
being very indefinite, belonged not to mathemathics, but to philosophy
(and to history, and to daily budgeting g)
The quote 'Money is
Actually in math and is times and or is plus.
In my school days (40+ yrs ago), and was +, times was x, and or,
being very indefinite, belonged not to mathemathics, but to philosophy
(and to history, and to daily budgeting g)
Ah, right, I didn't go to school in the US, so I missed this
