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Subject: Re: for / while else doesn't make sense
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On Mon, 23 May 2016 09:53:12 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:


>
>So 13th century European merchants would have been entirely incapable
>of cutting a cheese wheel in half in order to accommodate a customer
>who didn't the whole thing?
>

	Cutting a cheese wheel in half requires no number crunching... Simple
geometric bisection.

	Now... Figuring out how many pfennig to charge for that half wheel...
THAT requires number crunching <G>
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