Re: I must disagree with all of you.
Brandon, on host 198.74.16.3
Monday, June 28, 1999, at 12:16:52
Re: I must disagree with all of you. posted by enile on Monday, June 28, 1999, at 10:42:47:
> > > > > > 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... > > > > > > two AND three IS five, not six. > > > > 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)?
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