Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 07:13:05AM +1100, Tristan wrote:
[...]
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >To ste^H^H^Hquote Tom Lehrer: "... but in the new approach, as you know,
> >the important thing is to understand what you're doing _rather_ than to
> >get the right answer. ...  [emphasis mine]
[...]
> Hey, I actually learnt something from that song! Which is a bad thing,
> because it meant I didn't learn anything in Uni yesterday because in
> Discrete Maths, we learnt how to do stuff (conversion between and
> addition/subtraction in) with other bases. So yesterday was a long and
> boring day.
[snip]

Well, doing stuff with other bases are very easy. After all, base 8 is
just like base 10, if you're missing two fingers. ;-)


T

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Give a man a fish, and he eats once. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit
forever.

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