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From: Alan Smaill on 18 Apr 2007 06:40 Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes: > Brian Chandler <imaginatorium(a)despammed.com> writes: >> David R Tribble wrote: >> > Tony Orlow writes: >> > >> ala L'Hospital's theft from the Bernoullis, and >> > >> the division by 0 proscription. >> > > >> > >> > Alan Smaill wrote: >> > > and Zick was the one who claimed that he would use l'Hospital to work >> > > out the right answer for 0/0. such a japester, eh? >> > >> > Geez. How many posts before someone points >> > out that it's l'H�pital's rule? L'Hospital is where >> > you take someone after they get punched in the >> > nose by a mathematician after saying "l'Hospital's rule". >> >> Well, given that "�" is only a French spelling for "o-with-the- >> following-s-omitted", seems to me that l'Hospital is a pretty >> reasonable asciification. > > But it seems to be missing the "omitted" part of that. > Can I have a coffee without milk? > I'm sorry, we don't have any milk. > Ah, OK, how about a coffee without cream? like the silent "k" in "frying pan" > Phil > -- > "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank > so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of > /In God We Trust, Inc./. -- Alan Smaill
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2007 07:15 Alan Smaill <smaill(a)SPAMinf.ed.ac.uk> writes: > Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > Brian Chandler <imaginatorium(a)despammed.com> writes: > >> David R Tribble wrote: > >> > Tony Orlow writes: > >> > >> ala L'Hospital's theft from the Bernoullis, and > >> > >> the division by 0 proscription. > >> > > > >> > > >> > Alan Smaill wrote: > >> > > and Zick was the one who claimed that he would use l'Hospital to work > >> > > out the right answer for 0/0. such a japester, eh? > >> > > >> > Geez. How many posts before someone points > >> > out that it's l'H�pital's rule? L'Hospital is where > >> > you take someone after they get punched in the > >> > nose by a mathematician after saying "l'Hospital's rule". > >> > >> Well, given that "�" is only a French spelling for "o-with-the- > >> following-s-omitted", seems to me that l'Hospital is a pretty > >> reasonable asciification. > > > > But it seems to be missing the "omitted" part of that. > > > > Can I have a coffee without milk? > > I'm sorry, we don't have any milk. > > Ah, OK, how about a coffee without cream? > > like the silent "k" in "frying pan" There ain't no "f" in "honest politicians". There's a silent "c" in "rap" though. Phil -- "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./.
From: Tomasso on 18 Apr 2007 07:33 "Alan Smaill" <smaill(a)SPAMinf.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message news:fwe8xcq3qza.fsf(a)collins.inf.ed.ac.uk... > Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes: > >> Brian Chandler <imaginatorium(a)despammed.com> writes: >>> David R Tribble wrote: >>> > Tony Orlow writes: >>> > >> ala L'Hospital's theft from the Bernoullis, and >>> > >> the division by 0 proscription. >>> > > >>> > >>> > Alan Smaill wrote: >>> > > and Zick was the one who claimed that he would use l'Hospital to work >>> > > out the right answer for 0/0. such a japester, eh? >>> > >>> > Geez. How many posts before someone points >>> > out that it's l'H�pital's rule? L'Hospital is where >>> > you take someone after they get punched in the >>> > nose by a mathematician after saying "l'Hospital's rule". >>> >>> Well, given that "�" is only a French spelling for "o-with-the- >>> following-s-omitted", seems to me that l'Hospital is a pretty >>> reasonable asciification. >> >> But it seems to be missing the "omitted" part of that. > >> Can I have a coffee without milk? >> I'm sorry, we don't have any milk. >> Ah, OK, how about a coffee without cream? > > like the silent "k" in "frying pan" Brilliant guys! Now, what was the question? Tomasso. >> Phil >> -- >> "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank >> so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of >> /In God We Trust, Inc./. > > -- > Alan Smaill
From: Lester Zick on 18 Apr 2007 12:18 On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:44:25 -0600, Virgil <virgil(a)comcast.net> wrote: >In article <46250ea8(a)news2.lightlink.com>, > Tony Orlow <tony(a)lightlink.com> wrote: > >> In all fairness to Lester > >Why bother to be fair to one who is so compulsively unfair? Aw poor baby. Have I ever been other than scrupulously fair in pointing out that you're too lazy or stupid to demonstrate the truth of what you claim but not too lazy or stupid to claim it anyway? Let me speak to your Mommy. I mean assuming you know who she is. ~v~~
From: Lester Zick on 18 Apr 2007 13:39
On 17 Apr 2007 15:25:41 -0700, Marcus <BezekMarcus(a)aol.com> wrote: >Can you answer Ivey's challenge? If not, then it seems that your so- >called "problem" may not be a problem after all. I thought I had explained the circumstances of my original post relating to circular definition of geometric figures with SOAP operas. I rarely have occasion to argue issues with textbooks college level or otherwise so might be more appropriate to ask mathematikers for citations justifying their use of circular definitions instead of me. As for whether it remains a problem just consider PD's reply to me this morning on the collateral thread "Zick's Postulate" to wit that "mathematics is what mathematicians say it is and science is what scientists say it is". ~v~~ |