Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekchips.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!tekchips!toma 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 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:58:59 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <10600197@uiucdcs> <197@bnrmtv.UUCP> <1044@jhunix.UUCP> <185@opus.UUCP> <433@mot.UUCP> Reply-To: toma@tekchips.UUCP (Tom Almy) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 10 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.