3 Jun
2010
3 Jun
'10
10:43 p.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:19 PM, <arcarlini at
iee.org> wrote:
Maybe the unit of measure is the meal?
Doc, only half-joking
Liam Proven [lproven at gmail.com] wrote:
Possibly. The thing that is so interesting about them is that in some
cases they use the same word that normally denotes "one" to indicate a
group which in totality is smaller than a single instance of a
comparable entity.
2 small fishes = 1; 1 big fish = 2 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <arcarlini at
iee.org> wrote:
Let me try again ... they can
do 00, they can do 01, then they get
stuck.
That's "sufficiently small" in my book :-) I guess they'd at least be able cope with
binary (at least for
sufficiently small numbers).
Apparently not.