[Melbourne-pm] [OT] Meeting intervals
Benji Wakely
benji at arsimagica.net
Tue Jan 12 19:26:46 PST 2010
>As an aside - does anyone else frequently mis-parse declarations like
>"every second wednesday of the month"?
>
>I mean, if I spread out my cutlery draw's contents into a long line of
>forks, spoons and knives, and said to someone "take every second spoon
>from the draw", I'd assume they'd pick up half the spoons there, rather
>than just the second one in the line.
Key difference between the two is that your cutlery drawer is a finite set.
...At least, I hope so.
:)
--Benji
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