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- From: deghare@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Hare)
- Subject: Re: Two problems
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- References: <1992Dec28.220454.129@front.se> <israel.725681538@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Dec30.185116.29392@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:46:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.185116.29392@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
- >israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel) writes:
- >
- >>Suppose there are n couples.
- >>I'll assume that the men are seated in numerical order, so husband
- >>#i+1 is two places to the right of #i.
- >
- >I like your silent assumption of perfect etiquette!
- >Thinks: must revise my idea of California ...
-
- No need. The "ca" stands for "Canada". (And the "ubc" stands for
- "University of British Columbia".)
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- Dave Hare
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