OT:Re: No IRC in Kopete for KDE 4.1?

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/8/30 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/8/30 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>>>> Factorial.  Like, I'm talking to all my sibs and both parents, and
>>>> they're all doing the same (but n! rather than n**n, because if I talk
>>>> to my brother and he talks to me, that's usually only one conversation
>>>> :-) ).
>>>
>>> That's not factorial, that's the sum of 1 to (n-1) conversations,
>>> which works out to (n^2)/2.
>>
>> Damn!  You're right, and my expensive Math education is doing me no good
>> at all (I _still_ don't know why I went to school for a Math degree to
>> get into computers...)
> 
> Actually, I'm not. It should have been n*(n+1)/2. Young Gauss would be
> mad.

yeah, well: "on the order of...".  I still remember _something_ from that
Math education.  Never commit to a number - it's always "on the order
of...".
-- 
derek