Comment length was a non-issue. I should've taken a screenshot. Five morons condemned me for being "off topic", threatening erasure in five days. Bill Dubuque's explanation of why they were grumpy with me nicely confirms that they're minimorons on a power trip. On 2019-06-21 15:11, Tom Karzes wrote:
Most of these sites have a minimum comment length, so if your comment is shorter, you need to pad it out to achieve the minimum.
Tom
Fred Lunnon writes:
It's like any other social group --- initially, anything goes and there are no rules; but as time passes, certain patterns of behaviour become dominant, then codified by rules (possibly implicit but nevertheless progressively more rigidly enforced), and eventually any deviation is fiercely condemned.
Appeal to the original aims of the group will ignored, if not pronounced treasonous. The only solution is dissolution: long live Ivan Illich and the revolution!
I'm not going to ask why you wanted to spell "Exactly." with 15+ letters. But anyway how do you spell "hungry horse" with just 4 ?
I'll bite. —rwg
WFL
On 6/21/19, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3268714/what-are-the-semiaxes-a-b-c...
—Bill