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But how many points in grammar trolling?
...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.
"I have 2 moneys" doesn't make sense, so you use "less money."
"I have 2 points" does make sense, so you use "fewer points."
The two maths jokes that I can remember from my undergrad days are: "What's purple and commutes?" "An abelian grape" "What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?" "Zorn's Lemon" Evidently there's something inherently funny about group theory.
"What's yellow, normed, and complete?" "A Bananach space."
For any epsilon less than zero .....
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"Let ε<0." There goes the neighborhood!
Excellent. Thankyou very much. I teach basic Maths to adults in the UK, so I tend to use these old faves... "What did the zero say to the eight?" "Nice belt" (even my sister has heard that one) "Why does noone talk to circles?" "There's no point" Thankyou and goodnight
Because seven eight nine.
Never grep a yacc by the inode.
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...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.
Less is used when you can't count the object discussed. Fewer is used when you can. "I have 2 moneys" doesn't make sense, so you use "less money." "I have 2 points" does make sense, so you use "fewer points."
"Fewer rational numbers" works, but "less real numbers" sounds funny.
tl;dr: They were down there talking about math one afternoon and the owner of the deli was trying to take the order from one of them and he was a little bit too preoccupied with mathematics to fully engage in the sandwich ordering process.
Thank you; you beat me to posting the TLDR. The sign is humorous, but the article is entirely too long for the subject.
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...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.
Less is used when you can't count the object discussed. Fewer is used when you can. "I have 2 moneys" doesn't make sense, so you use "less money." "I have 2 points" does make sense, so you use "fewer points."
Might be my own ignorance, might be my teachers growing up using trainwrecks like "yous" and "alls."
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In 2005, which had a very bad hurricane season in the Atlantic, (that was the year of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma) they ran out of names for hurricanes and had to use Greek letters. The last hurricane of the season was called Epsilon. Due to my mathematical training I found it very hard to be scared of it.
Due to my training in parser theory, this hurricane is unnamed.