Cannot access broadband on 9.1

[Leonard]

Arthur Trevaskis wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ub)"<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
> To:<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 11:34 AM
> Subject: Re: Cannot access broadband on 9.1
>
>
>    
>> On Wed, November 25, 2009 13:33, Arthur Trevaskis wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> As a child at school. I was taught to suppress unwanted zeros (to the
>>> right
>>> of a decimal point), so to me, 9.1 is 9.10, 9.100, etc. I still do it,
>>> doesn't everyone?
>>>        
>> Ubuntu versions aren't numbers, they are string concatenations that follow
>> a well-known rule.
>>
>> Part 1: last two numbers of the year, without leading zeros
>> Part 2: a dot
>> Part 3: month, with leading zeros
>>
>> All Ubuntu versions so far were "4.10", "5.04", "5.10", "6.06", "6.10",
>> "7.04", "7.10", "8.04", "8.10", "9.04", "9.10". They also have nicknames:
>> alliterating adjective + animal name. Starting from "6.06" they are in
>> alfabetical order. "6.06" has an adjective + animal starting with the
>> letter d, "6.10" starts with the letter e,...
>>
>>
>> And then something else abouth math...
>> As a child in school, I was learned the same thing about trailing zeros.
>> However when I was in university I learned about precision in physics. I
>> was unlearned to omit the trailing zeros. I was learned to read it like
>> this:
>> 9.1 = 9.1 +/- 0.1 = 9.0 to 9.2
>> 9.10 = 9.10 +/- 0.01 = 9.09 to 9.11
>> 9.100 = 9.100 +/- 0.001 = 9.099 to 9.101
>> Do you now understand the difference between 9.1, 9.10 and 9.100? If you
>> don't, no worries, it just means that you never had to do any precise
>> measurements in a physics experiment and calculate with the margins of
>> error of your measurements.
>>
>> cut it out mate!
>>      
>
>    
You'll likely get more help if you'd quit replying to this OT thread and 
get back to your original
problem.  Did you ever get it resolved? BTW, people on this list were 
just trying to educate you
in the proper designation of Ubuntu releases.  It did get a little 
overboard though-:o)

-- 
Leonard
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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