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Article #765Re: Largest digit with a name?
From: ibokor
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:00
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PISCHKE DAVID (pischke@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote: : In article <4dc4c6$15k@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, : Michael Glenn <michaelg@julian.uwo.ca> wrote: : >What is the largest digit with a name? : : Assuming you are talking about mathematical objects and not body parts, : the largest digit is 9, of course. If you mean body parts, the largest : digit would have to me the middle finger. : I have just compared my thumb and my middle finger, from the tip to the third joint. My thumb is a tad longer and substantially broader. I guess that makes it larger. The same basis of comparison makes my big toe the largest digit. d.A.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109d8a,95a097a79829929b X-Google-Attributes: gid109d8a,public X-Google-Thread: f7972,95a097a79829929b X-Google-Attributes: gidf7972,public From: ibokor@metz.une.edu.au (ibokor) Subject: Re: Largest digit with a name? Date: 1996/01/16 Message-ID: <4df5d2$4bi@grivel.une.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 135680227 references: <4dc4c6$15k@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <DL8rx4.AMD@ecf.toronto.edu> organization: University of New England, NSW, Australia followup-to: can.schoolnet.math.sr,sci.math newsgroups: can.schoolnet.math.sr,sci.math