[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] CFI 1748

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 27, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Craig wrote:

> Having considered the CFI in question, I find that the ambiguity of the
> "difference" in score means that there are two possible values. It is
> obvious that the Speed Limit prevents the score in question from being 
> zero
> if a common-sense definition of "difference" is used, but this 
> definition
> does not indicate whether the plaintiff's score was set to 42 or 542. 
> Since
> this is the common-sense answer, it would suggest that the score was 
> 42. A
> strict mathematical interpretation could be used to alleviate the 
> ambiguity.

The strict mathematical interpretation of "the difference between x and 
y" is |x-y|.

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Wonko
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