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Date:      Fri, 01 Apr 2005 01:09:07 +0200
From:      Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
To:        Simonas Kareiva <simonas.kareiva@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /www/en/index.xsl
Message-ID:  <20050331230907.GK87756@unixpages.org>
In-Reply-To: <6035a596050329220442fdcd88@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <6035a596050329220442fdcd88@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:04:18AM +0300, Simonas Kareiva wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> line 179 of /www/en/index.xsl says that 'All you need is a couple of
> formatted 1.44MB floppies'. AFAIK in 5.3-RELEASE there are three
> instal floppies, (boot.flp, kern1.flp and kern2.flp), so not a couple
> anymore. In the future there may be even more of them. Maybe it's
> worth changing this to 'a few floppies' or 'several floppies'?
> 

In this context 'a couple' doesn't mean two floppies, but several.

From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:

[...]
4 : an indefinite small number : FEW <a couple of days ago>

- Christian

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