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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Converting Binary to Decimal - holy war alert
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:31:09 +0100
Date: 2001-03-29T08:31:09+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ac2e2ed@pull.gecm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bhqw6.5005$aP5.412427@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net

On A_Day :-)

Seriously though the 'A_'/'An_' notation is used in some s/w houses (I know
of 3 spread across the UK), precisely to to highlight the difference between
the abstract and the specific.

Phaedrus <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bhqw6.5005$aP5.412427@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> In that case, would you please deliver to me A_Billion_Dollars?  I don't
care
> which billion dollars you deliver.






  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-29  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-25 21:37 Converting Binary to Decimal WM
2001-03-26  4:51 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-03-26 12:36 ` Des Walker
2001-03-26 20:57 ` Phaedrus
2001-03-28  8:15   ` Converting Binary to Decimal - holy war alert Martin Dowie
2001-03-28 18:43     ` Phaedrus
2001-03-29  7:31       ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2001-03-29 22:50         ` Robert A Duff
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