Re: Largest digit with a name?

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From: Brandon VandeBrake
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:00

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pischke@ecf.toronto.edu (PISCHKE  DAVID) writes:

>In article <4df4ei$9mm@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
>Allen Knutson <allenk@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>>michaelg@julian.uwo.ca (Michael Glenn) asks:
>>
>>>   What is the largest digit with a name? 
>>
>>Thumb, unless you count "middle".

>Not to be technical, but a digit is a finger, and the thumb is not a finger.

	Semantics.  By this argument, a normal human has 8 digits.  Funny,
I always thought that there was a reason those ten familiar symbols were 
called digits.  Or are they teaching elementary students all their arithmetic
in octal now?
-- 
     Brandon VandeBrake           Some people claim that there's a woman 
     Ricketts Hovse RLPL          to blame, but I know it's all Newt
     branvan@cco.caltech.edu      and Bob Dole's fault. -Jimmy Buffett

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From: branvan@cco.caltech.edu (Brandon VandeBrake)
Subject: Re: Largest digit with a name?
Date: 1996/01/17
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