From owner-cvs-all Sun May 7 15:14:21 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA0A37BF61; Sun, 7 May 2000 15:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA60360; Sun, 7 May 2000 15:13:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3915EAA7.3A8C1D3B@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 15:13:59 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0422 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: Alexander Langer , Satoshi Asami , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX References: <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200005071133.EAA79913@freefall.freebsd.org> <200005071729.LAA71485@harmony.village.org> <200005071924.NAA72800@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 <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> Alexander Langer writes: > : Where do these p's and q's come from? RSA encryption? > > Yes. You pick two primes, P and Q, and keep them secret. Once a > while ago when Satoshi-san committed a prime number I made this > comment, and a joke got started. With all these primes committed > lately, I've continued the joke and made a different once too. In the > US when one is being extra polite, one is said to be minding one's p's > and q's. I have no clue where this saying came from, but it predates > the computer age. There are two competing theories. The more popular is that the saying came from the old days of english pubs where the keeper would tell the patrons to mind their "pints and quarts." The more likely comes from the world of manual typesetting, where p and q look very similar, and are next to one another in the box. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message