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"Oliver Jackson" <chexmofo@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Jul 27, 7:38 am, "Paul" <pchris...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> "Juha Nieminen" <nos...@thanks.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:4e301654$0$2852$7b1e8fa0@news.nbl.fi...> Paul <pchris...@yahoo.co.uk> 
> wrote:
> >>> If you don't know, why do you answer?
>
> >> Because its a discussion group not just Q and A's.
>
> > If someone asks a question, he is expecting people who know the answer
> > to tell him. He does not expect people who have no idea to start 
> > guessing.
> > It was not a quiz to see who wins the prize for giving the correct 
> > answer.
>
> This is not always the case, sometimes one asks a question as a starter 
> for
> discussion and debate
>
> > If you don't know, but are interested in the answer yourself, the proper
> > reply is "I'm interested in knowing the answer to this question too".
>
> This would not make a very interesting disucssion, how would someone reply
> to such a post? With something like ..." oh ok, thanks for letting us 
> know"
> or something along these lines?

Here is your post, verbatim:

    Dunno what is a varaint and and invariant?
    Sounds like a varaible and a ?? maybe I am on the wroing track

It hasn't happened yet, but I anticipate your post to lead to some of
the most interesting discussion this forum has seen in recent years.
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Well maybe not this post as it seems nobody is interested in talking about 
variants and invariants( of loop or non loop type ). But some of my other 
threads are probably the most interesting you will see :)


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what is a loop invariant johan1990 <81378989@qq.com> - 2011-07-26 06:26 -0700
  Re: what is a loop invariant Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-07-26 10:02 -0400
    Re: what is a loop invariant Todd Carnes <toddcarnes@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 12:29 +0000
      Re: what is a loop invariant Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-27 21:22 +0000
        Re: what is a loop invariant "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach:usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-07-28 01:42 +0200
          Re: what is a loop invariant Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-07-28 08:52 +0000
          Re: what is a loop invariant James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 12:12 -0700
            Re: what is a loop invariant "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach:usenet@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 02:52 +0200
        Re: what is a loop invariant Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-07-27 22:10 -0500
          Re: what is a loop invariant James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 12:03 -0700
  Re: what is a loop invariant Saeed Amrollahi <amrollahi.saeed@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 09:04 -0700
  Re: what is a loop invariant "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-26 22:55 +0100
    Re: what is a loop invariant Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-07-27 07:50 +0000
      Re: what is a loop invariant "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-27 11:11 +0100
        Re: what is a loop invariant Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2011-07-27 13:44 +0000
          Re: what is a loop invariant "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-27 15:38 +0100
            Re: what is a loop invariant Oliver Jackson <chexmofo@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-27 23:25 -0700
              Re: what is a loop invariant "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-07-28 19:45 +0100
    Re: what is a loop invariant Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-27 00:46 -0700
  Re: what is a loop invariant Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-27 21:41 -0700

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