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Re: OT: excellent book on information theory
From: Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btopenworld.com>
Date: Mon Jan 16 2006 - 21:05:12 CET
Date: Mon Jan 16 2006 - 21:05:12 CET
Grant Edwards wrote:
[snip]
>
> That made me smile on a Monday morning (not an insignificant
> accomplishment). I noticed in the one footnote that the H.P.
> book had been "translated into American". I've always wondered
> about that. I noticed several spots in the H.P. books where
> the dialog seemed "wrong": the kids were using American rather
> than British English. I thought it rather jarring.
>
In a bid for a US Government contract I had to rewrite British documents
to use the official American terms and words. Bill to be paid by the US
tax payer.
Andrew Swallow
Received on Tue Jan 17 16:50:52 2006