From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 22 9:36:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F2137B6DF for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:36:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22514; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:36:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38B2C83E.93C8AB2B@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:32:46 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, s3braiford@ij.net, W Gerald Hicks Subject: Re: Feaky References: <20000222134201.A38003@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000222135419.A38343@mithrandr.moria.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message