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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>, "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pass constants as first argument to st_mult()
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:31:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq60rkglym.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160801211131.6ernsu74ohod2cin@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 1 Aug 2016 17:11:31 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> *1* I have a slight suspicion that this is cultural, i.e. how
>> arithmetic is taught in grade schools.  When an apple costs 30 yen
>> and I have 5 of them, I was taught to multiply 30x5 to arrive at
>> 150, not 5x30=150, and I am guessing that is because the former
>> matches the natural order of these two numbers (cost, quantity) in
>> the language I was taught.
>
> You might be right. I was trying to figure out what is "natural" for me
> in these cases, but after thinking about it for 2 minutes, I'm pretty
> sure anything resembling "natural" is lost as I try to out-think myself. :)

Do native English speakers (or more in general Europeans) think of
the apple example more like "5 apples, 30 cents each", and do 5x30?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-01 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-30 18:18 [PATCH] pass constants as first argument to st_mult() René Scharfe
2016-08-01 16:47 ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 21:00   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-01 21:11     ` Jeff King
2016-08-01 22:31       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-03 19:13         ` Jeff King
2016-08-03 19:41           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 19:49             ` Jeff King
2016-08-03 19:58               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-03 19:59               ` Stefan Beller
2016-08-03 20:04                 ` Jeff King
2016-08-03 19:56           ` Christian Couder

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