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chevy@the.levy wrote:
> 
> Dianne Smith wrote:
> >
> > In <50qujj$qqm@noc.van.hookup.net> mnoda@awinc.com (Masataka Noda)
> > writes:
> > >
> > >yThe time of 100 years is very long.
> > ><deleted stuff>
> > >
> > >masa
> > >
> > Sheesh, Masa.
> >
> > Not only are you the most immature, most obnoxious spammer in the
> > history of the internet, you are also a lousy mathematician.
> >
> > Want to try again to guess how many years there are between 1901 and
> > 2000?
> >
> > Dianne
> 
> Ummmm, lets see, 1901 to 2000...100 years...countem...go ahead, you can
> do it...1901 (1), 1902 (2) ,1903 (3)...all the way to 2000 (100).  Best
> to think before you flame.

Depends what logic you use and how you understand the word `between'.
Accordingly to my (weird ;^) mind, there are 98 years between 1901
and 2000. Don't laugh yet, read on... Take a look at this ASCII picture
consisting of 5 trees (trees are lame, for bandwidth conservation):

 `   `   `   `   `
/|\ /|\ /|\ /|\ /|\
/|\ /|\ /|\ /|\ /|\
 a   b   c   d   e

How many trees are there between trees #a and #e?
There are 3 trees between them, right? If there were
say 3 people standing together in a row, how many people
would be in the middle? Right, just one person. Applying
the same logic to say years 1990 to 1996 one can boldly
state that there are 5 years in between. It does contradict
to the logic of a math teacher, but I am a future hardware/
software consultant so my logic is different. :)

Regards,


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