Jamie Dallaire on Wed, 9 Jan 2008 00:44:45 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: [s-d] [s-b] Mackerel Transfer |
Clearly I know about adding and subtracting negatives :-p What I mean is that the rule of the text could be argued to limit transfers of currency to gifts that actually make the recipient's amount go UP and the giver's amount go DOWN. BP On Jan 8, 2008 6:41 PM, 0x44 <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jamie Dallaire wrote: > > can someone's amount of currency really be said to "go down" by a > negative > > number? or to "go up" by a negative number > Of course it can, that's just elementary addition and subtraction. In > order for ones currency to go down, one must subtract the value from > your amount of currency. Subtracting a negative number results in a net > increase to the total value. > > -- > -- > 0x44; > > _______________________________________________ > spoon-discuss mailing list > spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss > _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss