> > > > > I'll ask one more and then quit before I'm drummed out of the forum:
> > > > > Which is correct?
> > > > > Two and three ARE six.
> > > > > or
> > > > > Two and three IS six.
> > > > > Howard
> > > >
> > > > I would have to say it's the second one, because the whole sentence is:
> > > > The product of two and three is six.
> > > > The problem is that without that in front, it doesn't sound as good.
> > >
> > > I'd have to agree... the subject of that sentence doesn't actually appear anywhere, but it is singular.
> >
> > Dredging my memory, didn't the 'Inchworm' song go 'one and one is two, two and two are four...'? I could well be mistaken though, and I'm not sure it would prove anything...
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> two AND three IS five, not six.
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> two TIMES three or two BY three would be six ;)

Nah, you're all wrong: according to the Pentium 1 processor 2+3=4.9996

PS: anyone recall the old routine along the lines of...
physicist: 2+3=5.00
engineer: 2+3=7 (allowing margin for error)
statistician: 2+3=5 with a 95% probability
economist: 2+3=0.05
mathematician: 'I don't do arithmetic'
(expand at will)?