[Ads-l] An early "is is."

James A. Landau JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM
Mon Mar 27 19:55:38 UTC 2017


I once put a post on the old Historia Matematica mailing list in which I used "is is".  I also used "reckon" with the meaning of "think, conclude" rather than "compute".

I received an email from Germany asking me to please translate the post into English.

- Jim Landau

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