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Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness. Schools are conservative. So are [people]

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  • Subject: [mg106799] Re: More /.{I->-1} craziness. Schools are conservative. So are [people]
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlowski at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 07:37:27 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <hjbvc0$2tp$1@smc.vnet.net> <4B59D0C3.1030002@cs.berkeley.edu>

On 22 Jan 2010, at 17:22, Richard Fateman wrote:

> By the way,
>
> I remind readers that AK did not respond to the problem that .nb 
presentations incorporate Mathematica design flaws, e.g. for certain 
values of zero  ( :) ) we have
>
>
> {x >== 1, x > 1, x > 0, x}
>     evaluates to
> {True, False, False, 0.}
>
> RJF

Actually, I did respond and (immodestly) considered my response rather 
witty, but Steven, not trusting RJF's sense of humour wrote to me: 
"Let's not try to aggrevate things too much" and left my post looking as 
if the cat had eaten the most tasty bits.

Andrzej Kozlowski


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