[extropy-chat] 415 for lectgure
spike
spike66 at comcast.net
Thu Nov 2 05:39:43 UTC 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:49 PM
> To: ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] 415 for lectgure
>
> At 08:11 PM 11/1/2006 -0800, spike wrote:
>
> >I don't like having perfectly good math terms gobbled by Google.
>
> What math term has Google gobbled? Map? Sign? Groups? Hey, I can
> throw a googol of them at ya.
>
> Damien Broderick
Google gobbled the goofed version of googol. Many mathmeisters are not
meticulous masters of linguistic mechanics.
{8^D
Good catch Damien. I saw the term google so often, I had forgotten how to
spell 10^100.
I retract my Google accusation, with apologies to the non-evil corporation.
The scary part is that Damien actually trusted me to proofread one of his
books, oy. {8^D
spike
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