In article , Larry Hudson
wrote:
> The word "apron" was originally "napron", and over the years the phrase
> "a napron" mutated to "an apron". So that became the accepted word.
Similarly, the snake was a nadder - congruent with the natterjack toad.
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In article
<9d290ad6-e0b8-4bfa-92c8-8209c7e93...@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > There is a typographical fault on page 4 of this pdf file. The letter
> > "P" is missing from the word "Python" at the head of the comparison
> > columns.
> I can't see that problem---I'
In article
<351fcb4c-4e88-41b0-a0aa-b3d63832d...@e23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Mark Summerfield wrote:
> I only just found out that I was supposed to give a different URL:
> http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=137519
> This leads to a web page where you can download the doc
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I really don't recommend the ROT13 cipher, as this is extremely easy to
> > crack. Most grade school kids could break this one in seconds. ;-)
> I think you missed the point. Any recommendation to use ROT13 is lik
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We (Americans) all measure our weight in pounds. People talk about how
> much less they would weigh on the moon, in pounds, or even near the
> equator (where the Earth's radius is slightly higher).
Their weight on the moo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not necessarily. A python is a sleek and powerful
> creature, which are good associations for a programming
> language. The word also hints at a bit of danger and
> excitement. On the whole, I think it's a good name.
I remember r
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I worked on the British Railways National Payroll system, about
> > 35 years ago, we, in common with many large users, wrote our system to
> > deal with integer amounts of pennies, and converted to pounds,
> > shillings and
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe that to the degree that "real" accounting was done in those
> currencies it did in fact use non-decimal bases. Just as people don't
> use decimal time values (except us crazy computer folk), you're write
> 1 poun
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To actually answer you question, there is a known loop
> cycle in 3n+85085 for which p=492 and q=264. If there is
> one solution, there must be at leats 263 others (the
> cyclic permutations), but to brute force searc
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For example, how many ways can you put 492 marbles into
> 264 ordered bins such that each bin has at least 1 marble?
> The answer
> 66189415264331559482776409694993032407028709677550
> 596291300192890141937773498314
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adrian Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe it has shown up and Google simply isn't showing it yet. Can
> anyone confirm that a thread posted yesterday (July 18th, 2007) whose
> title was something like "interpreting os.lstat() output" exists or
> not?
Tha
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
momobear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I forgot to give the url :http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pySpeex/
> I Couldn't Open the website.
It works if you knock the colon off the front of the URL as given.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So why do you want to strip off accents? The history of communication
> has several examples of significant difference in meaning caused by
> minute differences in punctuation or accents including one of which you
> may hav
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by
> > typing "Python" in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of
> > getting to IDLE.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> $ yum provides idle
> can help,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by
> > typing "Python" in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of
> > getting to IDLE.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> $ yum provides idle
> can help,
I have just installed FC5 on a new computer. I can access Python by typing
"Python" in a terminal window, but I can't find any way of getting to IDLE.
Can anyone help?
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But the real question is why it is that American publishers believe
> their readers are so lazy and ignorant that they require special
> "translations" of British books. I don't know anyone who has said "I'm
> glad that
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mikael Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One question here is: Are US English and UK English different languages
> or not?
A few years ago I was in a French bookshop in London. On the counter was a
leaflet advertising recent translations; some were "from the
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I take it then you avoid browsers or use Lynx? No you FIX the
> problems rather than wear a hair shirt. Same for email. Why should
> rich expressions only be permitted to those with websites.
>
Between consenting adults
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Plain text is a badly impoverished medium for explaining things in.
> For one thing, code on my web site tends to get syntax highlighted.
> There's no way I could do that in plain text.
On your web site the use of addition
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I think e-mail should be text only.
> I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with
> HTML and people have in Pavlovian fashion come to hate HTML.
> But HTML is not the problem!
HTML in email is
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Xah Lee,
> >
> > Do you want to be taken seriously?
> > First, stop posting.
> > Second, learn perl.
> > Third, learn python.
> Hey all, I have seen no evidence that XL even reads the responses that
> have been directed
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