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Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME
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norm |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME |
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Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:43:20 -0700 |
Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
> I hate to be pedantic (okay, I don't really), but wouldn't the Tablets
> of Stone have been written in a Hebrew script,
No. They were not. Before the advent of Mime, that came with the Tower of
Babel, all was was ASCII.
> Also, I do not think you could accurately represent the Principia without
> some of the mathematical symbols available in Unicode. I mean, it's hard to
> do a� + b� = c�,
If Pythogorous could get along with ASCII so could Netwton:
The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs of a right triangle
equals the area of the square on its hypotenuse
Newton did not know about limits. He was too smart to need them. Lesser genius
like Bolzano -> Cauchy invented them.
Norman Shapiro
- [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, norm, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Paul Fox, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Earl Hood, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Michael Richardson, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Michael Richardson, 2014/07/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] I like neither green eggs and ham nor MIME, Ken Hornstein, 2014/07/17