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Excuse me. Did I come in late? Is this the thread about nothing to do about nothing? Huh. Yalls are funny. But can't you alls even carry a subtle thought to the abstract? Apparently olly can't. 
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Ha ha, yes indeed. Well themilum you definitely see things the way they are, an enviable talent. I prefer the more refined type of abstract. Less abstruse... Perhaps.
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Sorry olly.
I'll speak more direct come the occasion.
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Having majored in Math and CS (Engineering Math, not "real" math), I've always been interested in the development of ideas. Where do they come from? How did the person think of that? How do we describe the recursive nature of science and culture?
Science and technology give us new words, and new uses for old words. But also language is bona fide area of scientific research - but language is just one part of that complex relationship.
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Clearly that is the answer: 'Tis sloth (not sl0th) accounts for 'ohing zero'. The question of acceptance (individually) depends on whether one falls in with the apologist crowd. 
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I don't know if it's still the case, but last time I looked, the difference between U.S. and Euro roulette wheels was that the former has both 0 and 00 slots; and the last time I listened, the proper croupier calls were zero and double-zero.
in the category of Is Nothing Sacred, I wonder if this, too, has been corrupted..
(if you add up all the numbers on the roulette wheel (from 1 to 36), the resulting total is 666.)
-joe (hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia) friday
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'Tis true about the roulette wheel design, joe. Seems the American gambling houses were not content with their 1 in 37 edge and decided to go for 2 in 38. I have read somewhere that many experienced European gamblers refuse to bet with these odds, and someone told me that there are a few private areas where sufficiently high rollers in Vegas can be found playing on a wheel with only the one green zero, but that these are never seen by hoi polloi. Don't know if it's true.
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