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From: "Richard Heathfield" <complangc@eton.powernet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01becd57$fb266980$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FEtKD3.G52@research.att.com

Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com> wrote in article
<FEtKD3.G52@research.att.com>...
> In article <7mfpke$ebq$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
> Warner Bruns <bruns@tetibm2.ee.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> 
> > > OK, here's a pop quiz.  If X is 7 and Y is 3 and you execute
> 
> > > 	MULTIPLY X BY Y.
> 
> >  Let me guess:
> 
> >    X now has the value of 21
> 
> >  Is this right?
> 
> No, it's wrong.  Please try again.
> 
> My point in bringing up this example, by the way, is that the
> meaning of ``obvious'' depends in large part on what is familiar.

Harvey's Law: For every 255 on-topic threads, there should be 1 off-topic
thread. In that spirit, I'll answer:

X is now 7 and Y is now 3.

It's analogous to the C code:

int x = 7, y = 3;

x * y;

Well, okay, I'm guessing. So?  ;-)


-- 
Richard Heathfield

The bug stops here.





  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-07-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-08  0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09  0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12  0:00   ` Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09  0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09  0:00   ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09  0:00     ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12  0:00       ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12  0:00         ` Jim
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13  0:00             ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13  0:00               ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13  0:00       ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13  0:00         ` Lawrence Kirby
1999-07-13  0:00         ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13  0:00             ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00               ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13  0:00                 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00                   ` LR
1999-07-13  0:00               ` Richard Heathfield [this message]
1999-07-13  0:00                 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00                   ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13  0:00                   ` Dale King
1999-07-13  0:00                 ` Dale King
1999-07-13  0:00           ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13  0:00             ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14  0:00               ` Michael F. Yoder
     [not found]     ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09  0:00       ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09  0:00         ` firewind
1999-07-10  0:00           ` John Duncan
1999-07-10  0:00         ` Kenny A. Chaffin
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