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From: KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:03:06
Message-Id: 4AD3A78D.9090504@konstantinhansen.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error by Grant Edwards
1 Grant Edwards schrieb:
2 [snip]
3 >
4 > It's the same in mathematics for many/most operators i - j and
5 > j - i aren't the same thing. The position of the variable
6 > relative to the operator tells you want's going on. While a +
7 > b is equal to b + a, that's a property of the particular
8 > operator.
9 >
10 > OK, this is waaay off topic now...
11 >
12
13 a+b=b+a is a definition which does not have to be this way. It can be
14 seen (in reality) but it can not be proofed (in math).