Okay, okay. Yes, the normal English language usage is the way you say it is. I haven't been to primary school here, so I've never been taught math with this usage of "and". People in most of my math and EE classes do it the way I said, for I think good reasons, which I can explain if anyone really cares, but I think there are better things to talk about on lace-chat than math. Anyway, the "and is +" version probably applies better to silly proofs about girls, and I'm just a typical Techer and tend to stick my obscure math where it doesn't belong <g> (and that despite actually being a biology major - see what Caltech does to you? <g>). Sorry.
Weronika On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:28:32AM -0700, Joy Beeson wrote: > At 05:53 PM 5/18/04 -0700, Weronika Patena wrote: > > >Actually in math "and" is "times" and "or" is "plus". > > <math major's jaw hits floor> > > If I have six one-dollar bills and five pennies, I have six dollars *plus* > five cents. I do not have 0.3 dollar-squared. > > "Or" is "or". Except when it's "xor". (Hmm . . . I'll have to try "XOR" > in a Google search sometime.) > > -- > Joy Beeson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ > west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. > where it keeps spitting rain. > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
