From: Stephen Turner (sret1_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 14:56:11 PST
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Alan Riddell wrote: > >Judgement: I interpret "all numbers in base 11" in 176:1 to imply that all > >numbers must be written in digits. But this rule contains the words "zero" > >and "one". (cf "must each contain at least 1 fantasy number" in your first > >rule). > > I you had to read 1 + 0 aloud what would you say? The multiplicative > indentity plus the additive identity??? > Sure, if you had to read it aloud. But the question was not what to say, but what to write. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 -- Rule Date: 2002-02-06 22:56:28 GMT
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