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On 24 Mar 2001, at 18:48, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> Hi Joe E. Dees -
>
> >I can't think of a single word that means the exact same thing to all
> > who use it.
>
> The tower of Babel in reverse....
>
> But....
>
> Ain't this where science hopes to create one meaning? And in
> mathematics it would seem that when one uses the word 'equals', that
> it means precisely what anyone else would mean precisely by it, for
> instance, in the phrase 'two plus two equals four'.
>
> Although, I'm sure there are some mathematicians out there willing and
> able to compromise my naiveté....
>
There are, just off the top of my head, at least two distinct
meanings, one a subset of the other; 'as much as', which connotes
amount, and 'the same as', which connotes both amount and
configuration.
>
> - Wade
>
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