On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Craig Daniel<teu...@pobox.com> wrote: > 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. >
Generally the ellipsis indicates that the number continues beyond that point. In some recent proposals there is a relevant parallel with things like "Replace the paragraph beginning with "A player CAN..." ". -- C-walker
