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Re: Re: Re: Why is the negative root?

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• Subject: [mg69784] Re: [mg69732] Re: [mg69656] Re: Why is the negative root?
• From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
• Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:44:09 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200609220503.BAA16334@smc.vnet.net>

On Sep 21, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:

>
> On 20 Sep 2006, at 20:21, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
>> The key word is "root isolation".
>
> As has been, quite rightly, pointed out that's clearly two words.
> Since I think I can still count to 2 without help from Mathematica
> (but clearly not much more since recently I got completely stuck
> trying to add a 10% tip to a restaurant bill

Hmm...  10%...  That is not bad.  In the States it is minimum 15%.   
Can you imagine how harder our brain must work ?  Now I know why did  
I  /subconsciously/  avoid restaurants in recent years :)

János


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  • Re: Re: Why is the negative root?
    • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>