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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dr Iain Maoileoin <iain@csp-partnership.co.uk>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs - now off topic
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 08:00:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211223160011.GS24180@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca9d9c00-fd60-b8f9-c5b4-e00c7d7ad07c@csp-partnership.co.uk>

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 03:29:18PM +0000, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote:
> >Probably boomer doing math wrong.
> 
> I might get flamed for this comment, but is a number divided by a number not
> arithmetic.?? I cant see any maths in there.

That's just a language thing, lots of people in the US call arithmetic
math.  I'm 100% positive that that is not just me.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-23 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-22 15:11 [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs Alexander Jacocks via TUHS
2021-12-22 20:31 ` josh
2021-12-22 21:07   ` Rob Pike
2021-12-22 21:15     ` Rob Pike
2021-12-23  4:28       ` Warren Toomey
2021-12-23  4:31         ` Alexander Jacocks via TUHS
2021-12-23  4:45         ` Rob Pike
2021-12-22 21:14 ` Win Treese
2021-12-23  0:48   ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-23  1:30 ` Adam Sampson
2021-12-23  2:18   ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 13:05     ` Michael Kjörling
2021-12-23 14:19       ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 15:29         ` [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs - now off topic Dr Iain Maoileoin
2021-12-23 16:00           ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-12-23 16:28             ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2021-12-23 16:35               ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 16:47                 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2021-12-23 22:15               ` Steve Nickolas
2021-12-24 20:57               ` Derek Fawcus
2021-12-23 16:02           ` Warner Losh
2021-12-23 16:19             ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-23 22:13               ` Steve Nickolas
2021-12-24  3:48                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-28 21:45                   ` Greg A. Woods
2021-12-29 16:58                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-09 19:04                 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-12-25  0:00 ` [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs Mike Markowski
2021-12-29  2:44   ` Alexander Jacocks via TUHS

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