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Re: I must disagree with all of you.
Posted By: Brandon, on host 198.74.16.3
Date: Monday, June 28, 1999, at 12:16:52
In Reply To: 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)?

VBA Programmer:

Private Sub Addition_Click()
Dim a as integer
Dim b as integer
Dim i as integer
a=2
b=3
On Error GoTo ErrIsuck.click
a+b=i
msgbox i
Exit Sub
ErrIsuck.click:
Exit Sub
End Sub


BASIC programmer:

10 ? 2+3
20 goto 10

LOGO programmer:

Pen Down
Tell Turtle Forward 2
Tell Turtle Forward 3
Pen Up

Microsoft Programmer:

"Huh?"

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