On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Geoffrey Spear<geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:05 PM, > C-walker<charles.w.wal...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 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. >> >> 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..." ". > > Generally quotation marks around something mean that you mean > literally what is quoted.
Of course, normally there's no ambiguity about which way it is meant. Here there is. So... perhaps the name change failed because it was ambiguous whether e meant the number e or the first few digits thereof and some punctuation.
