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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 01:27:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
  
Dave! (semi-math-illiterate, to my shame)

Dave! I think you meant to say you were semi-innumerate! Or heck, that would be the same as saying you were semi-numerate, wouldn’t it? Not that I am convinced either is actually so.

Maggie C. (who has been exposed to some real innumerates in her travels, and Dave! You don’t come close!)



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  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) For a while I was semi-innumerable. I was absolutely beside myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself and myself (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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(...) Okay, but help out a poor English major. I thought that 0.00004 is 0.004%, rather than .00004 percent, just as 0.86 is 86%. Am I wrong? I admit that it's entirely possible! Dave! (semi-math-illiterate, to my shame) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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