On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smith<ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote: >> > I change my name to "2.71828183..." or "e" for short. >> >> I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking the third-person >> singular pronoun 'e' might have some *slight* chance of being "a name >> that has generally been used to refer to another entity within the >> past three months"? > > Could be a potential wording scam here, given there's no entity in > particular that 'e' generally refers to in Agora, but instead, it's used > to refer to lots of different entities. > > (There was a CFJ a while ago (CFJ 2319) asking whether people saying 'e' > really meant the number: it was ruled that it referred to the number by > default, but only when this was reasonable, and it wasn't reasonable > anywhere in the rules. I wonder if C-walker's name change makes it > reasonable?)
No, because technically I believe e changed eir name to a number slightly lower than the number e followed by an ellipsis, rather than to the number itself.
