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From: gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Non-mathematics on net.math
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 01:34:15 EST
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    In a recent counter-flame, Tim Snyder complained about Bob Silverman's
complaint about David Hough's submission of a problem filled with computerese
gibber and concering floating point operations in C (or Pascal) on various
systems. Tim announced that many people believe that such problems
are in fact mathematical. Unfortunatly, these people are wrong. I
suspect a lot of us would support the efforts of Bob Silverman or anyone else tokeep such submissions *off* of net.math, especially when the person posting
seems to be well-supplied with places to post. If the "people who post" don't
know or don't care what mathematics is, what is wrong with telling them so,
instead of "letting them decide". The world of mathematics is a massive
one, and for just that reason we might resonably want to keep it clear of
other massive worlds such as computer science.


      Gene W. Smith