From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 22 3:54:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC39B37B600 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 03:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12NDtU-0009zR-00; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:54:20 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:54:20 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, s3braiford@ij.net, W Gerald Hicks , Doug Barton Subject: Re: Feaky Message-ID: <20000222135419.A38343@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000222134201.A38003@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue 2000-02-22 (22:17), Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On 22-Feb-00 Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > >> example of what shouldn't be sent to a list full of experienced > >> internet > >> users. :) > > 99 doesn't. > > 99 * 9 = 891 > > 8 + 9 + 1 = 18 > > 1 + 8 = 9 That's not what he said. He said "sum of any two digit product of 9 adds up to 9". 99 is a two digit product of 9. It does not add up to 9. I do understand the property; his description was slightly inaccurate (and in no way is limited to two digit products). Hence the "*hide*". Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message