From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 25 17:43:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BDAC37BE60 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:43:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 75566 invoked from network); 26 May 2000 00:43:29 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 26 May 2000 00:43:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 16555 invoked by uid 211); 26 May 2000 00:43:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 06:13:28 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: Warner Losh , Kris Kennaway , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20000526061328.B16522@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000525030514.A86566@mad> <200005250438.VAA63650@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000525030514.A86566@mad> <200005251738.LAA85378@harmony.village.org> <20000525142717.B94114@mad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000525142717.B94114@mad>; from vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 02:27:18PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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