From: Alan Braslau <braslau.list@comcast.net>
To: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:35:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180810113546.6cb6716b@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a951c872-430b-3b00-adf2-d7bfca02954c@xs4all.nl>
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 18:38:19 +0200
Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 8/10/2018 5:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
> > And I still could smash my primary school teacher: When I asked "what happens if we subtract a bigger number from a smaller?", she answered "that’s not possible". :(
> > She could have easily told me "you will learn that later" or just show me at the thermometer "look, we will get below zero"...
> > But noo, better keep children dumb, otherwise they could outwit you.
> >
> > Sorry for ranting ;)
> but with your thermometer example young Alan (who watches discovery
> channel on a daily basis and later becomes a low temperature expert)
> would outwit you as he would challenge you to subtract 300 from zero
No, - 273.15 ;-)
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-10 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-06 21:59 footnote and endnote markers aligned with the left margin of the main text Robert Zydenbos
2018-08-07 15:54 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-07 22:40 ` general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation (was: footnote and endnote markers...) Robert Zydenbos
2018-08-07 22:54 ` Alan Braslau
2018-08-08 13:30 ` Robert Zydenbos
2018-08-08 15:28 ` general suggestion for ConTeXt documentation Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-09 12:17 ` Robert Zydenbos
2018-08-09 18:15 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-08 15:54 ` Hans Hagen
2018-08-08 16:12 ` Alan Braslau
2018-08-08 6:18 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-08 6:50 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2018-08-08 16:31 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2018-08-10 15:50 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2018-08-10 16:38 ` Hans Hagen
2018-08-10 17:16 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2018-08-10 17:35 ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2018-08-11 5:51 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2018-08-08 16:02 ` Hans Hagen
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