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 08:35:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211223163532.GW24180@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3915e4db-6740-9777-03f4-4c6b4c09045c@csp-partnership.co.uk>
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 04:28:26PM +0000, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote:
> On 12/23/21 4:00 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >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.
>
> Interesting - have you always done that??? Or is it a more recent use of the
> word?
It's always been that way, arithmetic is a mouthful so people use math
to mean arithmetic. You are correct, arithmetic is a distinct subset
of math. But it's pedantic to call that out, math is a superset of
arithmetic so it is perfectly reasonable to call doing some arithmetic
"math". If we started nit picking about those types of differences,
we'd never get anything meaningful done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-23 16:35 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
2021-12-23 16:28 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2021-12-23 16:35 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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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