Cannot access broadband on 9.1

[Arthur Trevaskis]

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From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ub)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: Cannot access broadband on 9.1


> On Wed, November 25, 2009 13:33, Arthur Trevaskis wrote:
>
>> As a child at school. I was taught to suppress unwanted zeros (to the
>> right
>> of a decimal point), so to me, 9.1 is 9.10, 9.100, etc. I still do it,
>> doesn't everyone?
>
> Ubuntu versions aren't numbers, they are string concatenations that follow
> a well-known rule.
>
> Part 1: last two numbers of the year, without leading zeros
> Part 2: a dot
> Part 3: month, with leading zeros
>
> All Ubuntu versions so far were "4.10", "5.04", "5.10", "6.06", "6.10",
> "7.04", "7.10", "8.04", "8.10", "9.04", "9.10". They also have nicknames:
> alliterating adjective + animal name. Starting from "6.06" they are in
> alfabetical order. "6.06" has an adjective + animal starting with the
> letter d, "6.10" starts with the letter e,...
>
>
> And then something else abouth math...
> As a child in school, I was learned the same thing about trailing zeros.
> However when I was in university I learned about precision in physics. I
> was unlearned to omit the trailing zeros. I was learned to read it like
> this:
> 9.1 = 9.1 +/- 0.1 = 9.0 to 9.2
> 9.10 = 9.10 +/- 0.01 = 9.09 to 9.11
> 9.100 = 9.100 +/- 0.001 = 9.099 to 9.101
> Do you now understand the difference between 9.1, 9.10 and 9.100? If you
> don't, no worries, it just means that you never had to do any precise
> measurements in a physics experiment and calculate with the margins of
> error of your measurements.
>
> cut it out mate! 


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