Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 06:13:28 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20000526061328.B16522@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000525142717.B94114@mad>; from vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:27:18PM -0400 References: <20000525030514.A86566@mad> <200005250438.VAA63650@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005250000130.81590-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000525030514.A86566@mad> <200005251738.LAA85378@harmony.village.org> <20000525142717.B94114@mad>
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Tim Vanderhoek said on May 25, 2000 at 14:27:18: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:38:30AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > people actually say it: > > two plus two is five for sufficiently large values of 2 or > > small values of five. > > No, it does not mirror how people actually say it: > > -- > For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two. That is the version that I like best -- it sounds funniest to me. Maybe something to do with brevity and the punchline being at the end. > -- > > If I had fixed it to mirror how peope actually say it, it would read: > > -- > One equals two, for sufficiently large values of one or sufficiently > small values of two. > -- > > The way it will read, which everybody seems to like, is convoluted to > barely inside the boundaries of English. > > And don't blame that merely on being a math joke, since I've had > enough exposure to math to know that, despite what some people may > think, mathematicians do speak English. > > However, far be it from me to stand in the way of other people's > jokes. :-) > > If you want it to bear some resemblance to the formal statement of a > theorem, you'd probably go with what I changed it to, though. That's > why I changed it the way I did. Anyways. > > > -- > Signature withheld by request of author. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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