From owner-cvs-all Fri May 26 10: 0:23 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDFBA37BF15; Fri, 26 May 2000 10:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p03-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.132]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id BAA06892; Sat, 27 May 2000 01:59:46 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <392EAC20.208C1DE0@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 01:53:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes References: <20000525030514.A86566@mad> <200005250438.VAA63650@freefall.freebsd.org> <200005251738.LAA85378@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <20000525030514.A86566@mad> Tim Vanderhoek writes: > : Sure, if you want. I found that it took so long for me to parse the > : convoluted sentence structure that the punch line simply had no > : meaning anymore. But some people parse better than me. > > For math geek jokes, and one could argue that they are too narrow a > feiled, the more convoluted the better. Also, this mirrors how many > people actually say it: > two plus two is five for sufficiently large values of 2 or > small values of five. Frankly, I think it should be written as : 1.5 3 2 ; : 1 1.5 ; : 2 3 2 ; : + >r over r> tuck * >r r@ swap / * rot rot r@ swap / * r@ */ ; 1 2 + 3 = which is clear and easy to understand to everyone. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message