Posted by Neredbojias on 04/01/06 14:46

dorayme@optusnet.com.au wrote:
> Neredbojias wrote:
>> dorayme wrote:
>>> http://dorayme.150m.com/binHassad/youngTrader.html
>> The "2" relates to the 30 Dumar originally was paid. He actually kept
>> 27 - giving back 3 from the 30 he originally received. Do Australians
>> have trouble with math?
>
> A few things about this Boji: there are no Dumars in the problem faced
> by the young trader,

Ahh, Dumar _is_ the young trader. In fact, he originally had 2 names
but they were both the same so he dropped the second one.

> it is "maths", not "math",

Perhaps you are thinking of "baths"?

> what have Australians got to do with it,

I relate them to bemusing things.

> what "2" are you talking about?,

Yes, I didn't explain that very well. The "2" was a "mindslip",
actually the excess shikels Dumar had over the "fair" price of 25
shikels. It didn't really relate to the real math(s) problem at all,
but D. didn't want to be considered a "shikel gruber"... :)

why is it
> important?,

It wasn't important to me.

> do you like the new style of punctuation here?,

No, it sucks.

>and it is
> no use looking at what happened in another way, the young trader
> already did this and got into trouble, you are supposed to say why his
> way of looking at it is wrong,

The "why" is obvious: an error in logic. The problem really has very
little to do with math(s) at all.

> I can't give more than 2 out of 10 for
> this old boy and _this_ "2" only because you have had to absorb a
> strange culture all the way from a perfectly cool and nice place in
> Europe. Ever thought of going back, you could visit Luigi, he is with
> the neighbours...

I'd probably get beat up by a bunch of Germans on my way through Prussia.

> --
> dorayme

Tsk tsk.

> (I am out of town temporarily for tonight and am using Google, not sure
> at all the effect of all this, is Blinky reading this or not, he is
> dead set against Google I gather?)

I think he killfiles all Google messages but when you're raised in a
fishbowl...

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