From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28519 invoked from network); 23 Dec 2021 16:28:46 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Dec 2021 16:28:46 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E20789CEC7; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:28:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518F89CE21; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:28:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 028B69CE21; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:28:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from newtrichead.scotnet.co.uk (newtrichead.scotnet.co.uk [217.16.223.153]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8D99CC00 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:28:29 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [192.168.252.222] (cerberus.scotnetdev.net [80.80.180.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by newtrichead.scotnet.co.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 1BNGRVAd029243; Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:27:32 GMT From: Dr Iain Maoileoin To: Larry McVoy References: <818A6F70-D117-471A-9E08-E37B34F8FAE0@mac.com> <20211223021805.GK24180@mcvoy.com> <20211223141958.GR24180@mcvoy.com> <20211223160011.GS24180@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <3915e4db-6740-9777-03f4-4c6b4c09045c@csp-partnership.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 16:28:26 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20211223160011.GS24180@mcvoy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Photos of University Computer Labs - now off topic X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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? 50 years ago our (Scottish) schooling used only Arithmetic for the basic number manipulation.  About 10-15 years ago maffs became the name.  I dont know how the transition occured with us. Schools?  or Media??  Perhaps we have just imported the name from the good old US of A ;-)