Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:32:46 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, s3braiford@ij.net, W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Feaky Message-ID: <38B2C83E.93C8AB2B@gorean.org> References: <20000222134201.A38003@mithrandr.moria.org> <XFMail.000222221737.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20000222135419.A38343@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
>
> 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*".
You'll have to excuse me for not adding all of the 4 pages of
qualifications that my statement would really have required. I vaguely
remember that if you take any number, multiply it by 9, then keep adding up
the numbers you'll get 9, but I didn't feel like going out on a limb with
it. I should have known that my hope of evading smart-ass responses to my
post was in vain.
Thanks for not letting me down,
Doug
--
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