31 May
2006
31 May
'06
7:36 a.m.
What a wonderful flame war to be having over absolutely nothing at all important :). On 5/31/06, Bowerbird@aol.com <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:
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p.s. and if you asked for "a number of cookies", and i gave you _zero_, would you be inclined to think i had granted your plea?
You would also be entitled to give me half a cookie, because we didn't specify that it should be an integer, or to take a cookie away from me, because we didn't specify that it should be positive. I haven't yet figured out how you could give me an imaginary number of cookies, so it's probably restricted to real numbers. -- Jon Ingram