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  Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes: [big snip about LCD, GCF, GCD, LCM, etc...] You should teach fractions, Todd :) That's a much more in-depth explanation than my 5th grade math teacher ever gave (the one who kept asking me to tell her if she (...) (25 years ago, 18-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) old (...) I suppose I should have had more soda before I wrote that. I got very little sleep last night. Megafig is what they have at Legoland and is also on Joe Davenport's web site. They actually have their own name (Legoland) but I have (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Mini, Micro, Maxi, Macro, Kilo, etc. (was: Re: Pink spaceship)
 
(...) Yes, Micro- is 10^-6, but Mini- is not necessarily 10^-3. Mini- is any size less than 1. Milli- is 10^-3. (...) Macro is any size greater than 1 or greater than usual. It *can* be 10^3, but it isn't necessarily 10^3. Macroeconomics, for (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) I forgot adult LEGO-ness! It's a wonderful opportunity to make a very confusing and misleading true statment! :) :) Male adult LEGO fans are quite uncommon. Hee hee! It's true!! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
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  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) Yet another definition clash -- LOL! -- this just keeps getting confusinger and confusinger. Now I'm totally confusticated. :) In common English usage, does the phrase "common denominator" mean "denominators in common" (common within some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) Yeah, maybe I'll stop now. :) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) Uh, I think that'd be "inconsistency in my bookmark file". For a while, we were pedantic about the something-can't-be-b...d-a-domain rule, but then we decided to give in to the New World Order of web/dns. *grin* (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) I'm not sure that makes sense. By definition, all things that are in common occur the same amount -- i.e. everywhere. 'Cause otherwise, it wouldn't be common. Another possible alternative phrase might be "broadest common denominator"... (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
 
(...) Whoops, I didn't mean welcoming and accommodating the most infrequent ingredients per se -- glittery things like Shockwave or RealAudio, for example. I meant welcoming and accommodating browsers which happen to support special or infrequent (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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