From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream
Date: 1999/12/08
Date: 1999-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82kv25$k56$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82hgq5$p7p$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net
In article <82hgq5$p7p$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net>,
Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> was clearly the source for our cherished
> computer argot, "algorithm."
I trust everyone knows that the word algorithm is
an ignorant back formation from the proper arabic
derived word (algorism), influenced (inappropriately)
by the greek "arithmos". A very annoying bit of cultural
myopia.
Richard's joke still works nicely
Al-Gore-ism
idiotic claim, as in someone claiming to have invented the
internet who did not even know of its existence when it first
appeared
:-)
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-28 0:00 Decoding an octet stream Florian Weimer
1999-11-29 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-01 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Stupid patent tricks (was: Decoding an octet stream) Ted Dennison
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-03 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Numeric types Mario Amado Alves
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
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