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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: no more primitive data types in Java (JDK 10+). What do you think?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:48:53 +0000 (UTC)
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Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> wrote:

(snip)
> I stand corrected, in the sense that any number can be used 
> approximately.

> When someone says, "I had twelve phone calls", they might 
> mean more or less than twelve, but the meaning of the word 
> "twelve" remains precise.

> No one I've heard of before you denied that "dozen" means 
> twelve, even when  used approximately like any other number. 

OK, but how many is "dozens?" Is it only integer multiples of 12,
or other multiples?

-- glen