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Re: misc/41547: typo within fortunes2



The following reply was made to PR misc/41547; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <rnsanchez%wait4.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth), 
misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/41547: typo within fortunes2
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:14:48 -0400

 On Fri,  5 Jun 2009 18:05:03 +0000 (UTC)
 jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth) wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR misc/41547; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, misc-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
 > gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
 >         netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: misc/41547: typo within fortunes2
 > Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:01:39 -0700
 > 
 >  On Sep 21,  3:12am, rnsanchez%wait4.org@localhost wrote:
 >  }
 >  } >Number:         41547
 >  } >Synopsis:       typo within fortunes2
 >  } >Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 05 15:05:00 +0000 2009
 >  } >Originator:     Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez
 >  } >Description:
 >  } This fortune has a typo:
 >  } 
 >  } ===
 >  }         12 + 144 + 20 + 3(4)                  2
 >  }         ----------------------  +  5(11)  =  9  +  0
 >  }                   7
 >  } 
 >  } A dozen, a gross and a score,
 >  } Plus three times the square root of four,
 >  }         Divided by seven,
 >  }         Plus five times eleven,
 >  } Equals nine squared plus zero, no more!
 >  } ===
 >  } 
 >  } Instead of 3(4), it should read 3(2), since it is not a square root 
 > ascii-art.  Diff attached against latest CVS revision (1.33), hopefully not 
 > mangled in the form.
 >  } >How-To-Repeat:
 >  } 
 >  } >Fix:
 >  } --- fortunes2.orig      2009-06-05 10:58:49.000000000 -0400
 >  } +++ fortunes2   2009-06-05 10:59:01.000000000 -0400
 >  } @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@
 >  }  %
 >  }         ... with liberty and justice for all who can afford it.
 >  }  %
 >  } -       12 + 144 + 20 + 3(4)                  2
 >  } +       12 + 144 + 20 + 3(2)                  2
 >  }         ----------------------  +  5(11)  =  9  +  0
 >  }                   7
 >  
 >       How about something like this:
 >  
 >                              _
 >    -       12 + 144 + 20 + 3/4                   2
 >            ----------------------  +  5(11)  =  9  +  0
 >                      7
 
 Works for me, or even:
                    _
 12 + 144 + 20 + 3\/4                  2
 ----------------------  +  5(11)  =  9  +  0
           7
 
 >  
 >  }-- End of excerpt from rnsanchez%wait4.org@localhost
 >  
 
 -- 
 Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez           http://rnsanchez.wait4.org/
   "Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse."
 


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