Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:27:18 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20000525142717.B94114@mad> In-Reply-To: <200005251738.LAA85378@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:38:30AM -0600 References: <20000525030514.A86566@mad> <200005250438.VAA63650@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005250000130.81590-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000525030514.A86566@mad> <200005251738.LAA85378@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:38:30AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > people actually say it: > two plus two is five for sufficiently large values of 2 or > small values of five. No, it does not mirror how people actually say it: -- For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two. -- If I had fixed it to mirror how peope actually say it, it would read: -- One equals two, for sufficiently large values of one or sufficiently small values of two. -- The way it will read, which everybody seems to like, is convoluted to barely inside the boundaries of English. And don't blame that merely on being a math joke, since I've had enough exposure to math to know that, despite what some people may think, mathematicians do speak English. However, far be it from me to stand in the way of other people's jokes. :-) If you want it to bear some resemblance to the formal statement of a theorem, you'd probably go with what I changed it to, though. That's why I changed it the way I did. Anyways. -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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