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Article #666Re: Which Makes Most Sense?
From: Prisoner at War
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:16
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:16
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Yes, I do think that that's his point, but in math there isn't any connotative dimension to symbols (unless you wish to name a variable "cumgirl" instead of simply "x" or "y" or, even, "y grec"). But I guess there isn't any connotative difference between "one hundred" and "a hundred," except, as some have pointed out, one seems formal and the other more informal. Frederick Williams wrote: > > > Perhaps Herman Rubin's point was this. The binomial theorem says this: > > (x + squiggle)^2 = x^2 + 2x*squiggle + squiggle^2, > > where in place of "squiggle" you write some convenient symbol and utter > some convenient sound. The information you convey is not adversely > affected by (reasonable) choices of symbol/sound. > > (If that wasn't HR's point then my apologies!) > > -- > "The Academy is too large and too vulgar. Whenever I have gone > there, there have been either so many people that I have not been > able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures > that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse."
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