Scrounging - was Floating point routines for the 6809

[Liam Proven]

On 29 March 2017 at 17:05, Toby Thain via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> But you must have overlooked the intransitive definition below: "to search
> about and turn up something needed from whatever source is available".
>
> I'm pretty sure that's the sense Jim was using (and it's certainly not
> restricted to North America; I learned it in British English).

No, it's a fair cop, I did notice that. I specifically looked for an
American source today, but yesterday I didn't.

It seems very odd to me to talk about scrounging something that you
already own, though, that's the point.


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