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From: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Is English decaying rapidly? (less/fewer)
Message-ID: <344@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 11:23:52 EST
Article-I.D.: tekchips.344
Posted: Wed Nov  6 11:23:52 1985
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Reply-To: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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In article <433@mot.UUCP> al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) writes:
> 
>This seems like an overly pedantic and outmoded distinction.  Should we 
>then also read "n < 5" as "n is fewer than 5" instead of "n is less than 5"?

If n is an integer then it is "n is fewer than 5", but if n is floating
point then it should read "n is less than 5".

Tom Almy
Tektronix, Inc.