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Article #2690Re: class-sic. [Re: On whether C has ...]
From: Bill Kinnersley
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 1991 16:25
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 1991 16:25
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In article <27942:Jan902:20:0791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: > > No. I would rather subscribe to the standard definition. One of the > flaws of an education in mathematics is that you learn little tolerance > for attempts to corrupt the standard definitions of words. > Maybe that's one of the flaws in *your* education in mathematics. Apparently you were made to memorize and regurgitate a list of definitions at some point, and thought that that was mathematics. What you're supposed to have learned is that definitions are solely for the user's benefit, and it's far easier to just say what you mean and go on from there. Never in my life have I seen two mathematicians spend more than five seconds worrying about the "official" definition of anything. -- --Bill Kinnersley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!kinnersley From: kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: class-sic. [Re: On whether C has ...] Message-ID: <27770.278aef90@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 9 Jan 91 16:25:20 GMT References: <20021@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <24547:Jan822:05:4191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <20058@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <27942:Jan902:20:0791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 18