Re: First report on Conm

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> > My favorite way of solving the problem was introduced by a former math
> major:
> > the first Sarah on the list in question is Sarah' (or Sarah Prime);
> the
> > second (me) is Sarah" (or Sarah Double Prime).
>
> Arrgh.  Sarah'' *should* be pronounced "Sarah Second".  "Prime" is
> just
> English for "primus" = "first", it's not the *name* of the mark,
> really.
> But nobody listens to me on this one.
If it's any consolation to you, I'd think of those as "Sarah prim" and "Sarah
bis". Is there any English version of "bis" as name of "? FYI One of my maths
teachers felt free to use f^IX for the ninth derivative of f.

My name is common enough that I've had classmates sharing it etc, but I've
always resisted getting nick-names, so when forced to differentiate people
usually simply refer to me as Andreas Johansson. Back in grade 7-9 we had a
slightly odd situation; the two guys called Martin were usually known as
_Ljungberg_ and _Kacz_ (their surnames), while the two Andreases where always
simply called "Andreas", causing much confusion over the years. The exception
was a physics teacher who refered to everyone as "Herr X" (Mr X) or "Fröken Y"
(Miss Y), apparently as some form of joke since he otherwise was quite informal
with the pupils.

                                                                  Andreas

                                                             Andreas

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