Re: Profanity versus Professionalism: A little math

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Thomas S. Zemanian emerges from a cloud of chalk dust to writes:

>Well, I was going to let this go, but since you asked...
>
>Your equation is dimensionally inconsistent. I do not see a way that
a
>post can be a number, thus, the dimensions of this expression boil
down to
>
>
>[post] =o= [number].
>
>Clearly something must be wrong.
>
>Moreover, your contention seems to be that the number of nuts involved
is
>proportional to the average number of responses to a post per author.
>This seems odd: should one author write seventeen responses to a
single
>post, and no one else does, are there then seventeen nuts involved in
a
>thread involving only two people?
>
>Nice try, though.
>
>--Tom

Dang. My equation needs work. I'd start now, but those two Feynmann
acolytes just growl at me when I get too close to the chalkboard.

I'll just wait until they pass out from lack of food. I've found
that's the best way to deal with those types.

Wayne Johnson
ciacon@ix.netocm.com

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