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to: Phil Marlowe
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2004-09-17 17:45:48
subject: MATH

Hello Phil.

16 Sep 04 18:10, you wrote to me:



 PM>  ----MATH

 PM>>>  [calculate]  [calculate]

 PM>>>  [3.1416 x GMT - y/87 + $23.86 x 0.006271]

 PM>>>  You're in Shanghai ? ! !

 >>> Where'd you learn maths ... 

 PM>>  === Chinese restaurant. That $23.86 was my lunch bill.

 >> Kind'a makes sense ... 

 PM>  === That's what the waiter said when he saw the
 PM>  calculation that placed you in Shanghai.
 PM>  He wants you to say hello to his cousin who runs
 PM>  the restaurant on Hing Tu Street.


 PM>  === Cheers from Phil, practitioner of Chinese restaurant math.

Hmmm .... okay, if only I was there to help him out.


Russell

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