off topic but please forgive me me and answer

superpollo utente at esempio.net
Sat Apr 3 10:28:21 EDT 2010


Mensanator ha scritto:
> On Apr 3, 8:00 am, superpollo <ute... at esempio.net> wrote:
>> Patrick Maupin ha scritto:
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>>> On Apr 2, 2:41 pm, Andreas Waldenburger <use... at geekmail.INVALID>
>>> wrote:
>>>> While everyone else is mocking you: Can you please elaborate on why you
>>>> want to know and what kind of problem you're trying to solve with this?
>>>> Also, don't you think you should have picked a maths forum for this
>>>> kind of question?
>>> Methinks the OP is fluent in the way of choosing newsgroups.
>>> According to google, he has posted 6855 messages in 213 groups.
>>> http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=ul3SQhIAAAAYmLD0Oj5Y...
>>> And I can't speak for anybody else, but I just assumed it was an April
>>> Fool's question.  I meant to be laughing with the OP, not at him, so
>>> sorry if I misunderstood.
>> no no you understood prfectly *but* the thing is i am a regular in an
>> italian language math ng which is haunted by a crackpot who insists that
>> 1/2 * 1/2 cannot be 1/4, "because multiplication means getting bigger",
>> so i took a semi-serious stance and made a few posts as a statistical
>> tentative to "convince" said crackpot that the world is not going crazy
>> (but maybe he is)
> 
> I seriously doubt your crackpot friend actually believes that.
> Probably more troll than crackpot. Showing him articles and
> programs that prove your premise will accomplish nothing.

probably so, but you cannot imagine the traffic he generates...

> However, if you personally wanted information on programming
> with rational numbers, you came to the right place.
> 
>> thanks
>>
>> ps: note that my nickname is not unique, and there are a few people
>> whith the same one... and i didn't ever post using googlegroups
> 
> What does it mean, "super chicken?

yea!

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