From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (*) -> 1 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:26:49 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87r0vuidjc.fsf@eder.anydns.info> <87y1q1kvdm.fsf@web.de> <87h6wpkrlq.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36869"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 17 19:05:29 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pHqKu-0009Lq-8G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 19:05:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pHqK7-0005gH-GB; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:04:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pHqK6-0005fR-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:04:38 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pHqK4-0000Pq-72 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:04:37 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.85.233.9]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055D73.0000000063C6E335.000029E9; Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:04:36 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87h6wpkrlq.fsf@web.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142328 Archived-At: * Michael Heerdegen [2023-01-17 20:20]: > Jean Louis writes: > > > Every elementary school is there to prove that convention of having at > > least two addends for addition and two factors for multiplication > > exists. > > Ok... > > My neighbor has one garage with 2 Ferraris. Altogether he has (+ 2) ==> > 2 Ferraris. Not an undefined number of Ferraris. So you see that > extending the sum operator to one summand is natural and makes sense. > > I OTOH have no garage. The number of my Ferraris in all my garages is > (+) -> 0 Ferraries. Don't add Ferraris, just multiply them and you will get one. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/