Am I missing something? He? She? It? Are they now interchangeable? On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 at 16:15, Tim Gruene <tim.gru...@univie.ac.at> wrote:
> Dear Gerard, > > you are wrong. 'he' in this context has as much information as 'someone' > and > 'person'. It does not refer to the sex of the person spoken about. > > Best regards, > Tim > > On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:44:47 PM CET Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > > >>> Sorry to have taken this matter up in such a visible manner: I > > >>> noticed > > >>> > > >>> this very wrong formula in someone's paper, and that person then > told me > > >>> where he had found it. Having landed on that page, I didn't know > where > > >>> to go > > For the students: > > > > "someone" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits > > "person" = systematic absence of information = 0 bits > > "he" = 1 bit of information! > > > > --The other Gerard (1 bit of information!) > > > > ****************************************************************** > > Gerard J. Kleywegt > > > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se > > ****************************************************************** > > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > > to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > > ****************************************************************** > > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > > ****************************************************************** > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > -- > -- > Tim Gruene > Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis > Faculty of Chemistry > University of Vienna > > Phone: +43-1-4277-70202 > > GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
