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Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class....
Date 2015-01-27 23:04 +1300
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Andrew Robinson wrote:

> The spelling caveat is great -- and in Python the object named in bool's 
> honor is spelled bool (lowercase too). ;)

That doesn't change the fact that the man was called
George Boole (not Charles!). If you're going to refer
to him by name, it's only courteous to make some effort
to get it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole

-- 
Greg

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Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-26 05:38 -0800
  Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-01-27 23:04 +1300
    Re: Fwd: Re: Comparisons and sorting of a numeric class.... Andrew Robinson <andrew3@r3dsolutions.com> - 2015-01-29 13:07 -0800

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