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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
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Date: 2012-05-10T11:15:08+01:00
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> On 09.05.12 19:21, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 May 2012 11:51:22 -0500, Jerrid Kimball wrote:
>
>>> or dare I suggest:
>>>
>>> <multiply operands="31 56" />  <!-- multiplication is commutative after
>>> all -->
>>>
>>> or have I gone too far?
>>
>> I am afraid yes. You are just one step away from<f>"32*56"</f>, and two
>> from (God save us for such an unreadable gibberish): 32*56! (:-))
>
> I would guess that the latter expression means, to many,
> 32 to the power of 56 factorial.
>
> The first literal looks much more like a regular language, because
> of the quotes: prefix "3" followed by an arbitrary number of "2"s, suffix "56".

Excellent examples of ambiguity!

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-- Stephe