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kentn
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response 500 of 1037:
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Aug 3 01:30 UTC 2001 |
dozers 1 (gelinas)
achene 3 (albaugh)
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gelinas
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response 501 of 1037:
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Aug 3 04:09 UTC 2001 |
xylene
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blaise
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response 502 of 1037:
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Aug 3 14:18 UTC 2001 |
addend
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kentn
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response 503 of 1037:
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Aug 4 03:17 UTC 2001 |
xylene 2 (gelinas)
addend 4 (blaise)
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gelinas
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response 504 of 1037:
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Aug 4 03:27 UTC 2001 |
oppose
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kentn
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response 505 of 1037:
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Aug 4 22:40 UTC 2001 |
oppose 0 (gelinas)
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blaise
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response 506 of 1037:
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Aug 6 17:55 UTC 2001 |
ascend
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kentn
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response 507 of 1037:
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Aug 6 22:55 UTC 2001 |
ascend 4 (blaise)
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brighn
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response 508 of 1037:
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Aug 6 23:50 UTC 2001 |
attend
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kentn
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response 509 of 1037:
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Aug 7 00:51 UTC 2001 |
attend 4 (brighn)
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gelinas
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response 510 of 1037:
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Aug 7 04:49 UTC 2001 |
augend
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blaise
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response 511 of 1037:
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Aug 7 05:06 UTC 2001 |
Definition for augend, please? It's not at m-w.com, nor in the 1st ed. OED.
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kentn
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response 512 of 1037:
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Aug 7 11:30 UTC 2001 |
He doesn't need the definition to correctly guess the word:
augend 6 (gelinas) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
The *2nd* Ed. OED does have this word:
augend o.dend. [a. G. augend (H. Schubert Arithmetik und Algebra (a
1898)), ad. L. augendus (sc. numerus), gerundive of augere to increase:
see -end. ] The quantity to which an addend is added.
1898 T. J. McCormack tr. Schubert's Math. Ess. & Recreations 10 It
has been proposed to call the number which is regarded in addition
as the passive number or the one to be changed, the augend, and
the other which plays the active part..the increment.
1946 A. W. Burks in Theory & Techniques Design Electronic Digital
Computers (Univ. Penn.) (1947) I. viii. 2 If the right hand digits
of the addend and augend are either both 1's or both 0's, make the
right-hand digit of the sum 0.
1953 Proc. IRE XLI. 1245/2 The arithmetic element of our computer
is simply an accumulator... Addition of numbers is performed by
first entering one of the numbers (the augend) in the accumulator
and then giving the command to add, at the same time entering the
other number (the addend).
1977 [see addend].
...as does the American Heritage on-line dictionary, and WordNet.
Anyway, congratulations Joe, you're up!
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brighn
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response 513 of 1037:
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Aug 7 13:35 UTC 2001 |
That's a useful term outside of math, too. I could see it applied to the
portion of text which doesn't include the introductions, prologues, and
appendices... "My thesis was over 200 pages, but that's not unusual for
archeology because of all the charts; the augend was only 60 pages." (Other
than "actual text," which isn't quite accurate, is there another word for what
I'm describing?)
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gelinas
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response 514 of 1037:
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Aug 7 18:28 UTC 2001 |
That's about what I expected, once the usual double-letters were eliminated.
So I'm thinking of a word, and it's not:
augend 0 (lastword)
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blaise
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response 515 of 1037:
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Aug 7 19:03 UTC 2001 |
pedant
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blaise
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response 516 of 1037:
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Aug 7 19:04 UTC 2001 |
BTW, I didn't think that it did prevent him; I was asking because I hadn't
found it.
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gelinas
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response 517 of 1037:
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Aug 8 01:52 UTC 2001 |
pedant 1 (blaise)
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kentn
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response 518 of 1037:
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Aug 8 02:20 UTC 2001 |
unease
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gelinas
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response 519 of 1037:
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Aug 8 02:27 UTC 2001 |
unease 0 (kentn)
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blaise
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response 520 of 1037:
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Aug 9 18:12 UTC 2001 |
zephyr
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gelinas
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response 521 of 1037:
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Aug 9 18:27 UTC 2001 |
zephyr 1 (blaise)
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kentn
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response 522 of 1037:
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Aug 10 11:05 UTC 2001 |
export
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gelinas
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response 523 of 1037:
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Aug 10 13:01 UTC 2001 |
export 0 (kentn)
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blaise
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response 524 of 1037:
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Aug 10 18:17 UTC 2001 |
yeoman
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