Re: Listing Partitions?

On 2006-01-27, Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:17:13 -0500, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>
>> On 2006-01-26, Dave Uhring wrote:
>>>
>>> Everyone is entitled to his opinion, yourself included. There is no such
>>> thing as "dead wrong" WRT opinions.
>>
>> In my opinion, 2 + 2 equals 5.
>>
>> You don't consider that dead wrong?
>
> It could be true for large values of 2.

2 isn't a large value.

> High school geometry teaches that the sum of the interior angles of a
> triangle is 180°. Now consider the triangle on the earth's surface formed
> by the prime meridian, longitude 90° west and the equator.

High school geometry was talking about triangles on a plane.


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