At 09:19 PM 6/16/2008, Susan van Druten wrote:
>What is the sum of one and zero?  are it one?  or is it one?  Math 
>does not follow the grammatical rules.  I can count the number of 
>people who have responded to this thread.  But if I use math to 
>count them, I will come up with an amount and not a number of people.

DD: Trick question? "The sum is. . . ." Or, "It is . . . ."

To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
and select "Join or leave the list"

Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/