Re: Me and David C. Ullrich

In article <1129157379.258250.88480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Elmo" <elmoritz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> I am not a mathematician. I have about 25 hours of college math. I am
> an intelligent person who has spent a lot of time on this one question.

Yes. Your problem is *not* with mathematics. It is a liguistic problem.
In natural languages it is quite frequent that sentences are ambiguous.
In mathematics it is common to disambiguate such sentences by conventions
or definitions. In mathematics the two sentences mean the same thing
(by convention, or whatever). And the different results are completely
irrelevant, because there is a single meaning, so in mathematics there
is only a single result.
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