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Why is higher better? Same problem, different word. Just wondering.jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
I should have said that the context makes very obvious that higher = better.djewesbury wrote:Why is higher better?
Best two of three. Two of them may be better than the other, but you have select the best two (i.e. better is always a comparative between at least two elements or groups, while best is a single element or group based on a criteria).jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
hencejdaw1 wrote:But the same question could be asked of ‟higher two of three” versus ‟highest two of three”.
djewesbury wrote:Same problem, different word.
My choice as well. Possibly even "best two of the three."PhilW wrote:Best two of three. Two of them may be better than the other, but you have select the best two (i.e. better is always a comparative between at least two elements or groups, while best is a single element or group based on a criteria).jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
I also agree with this. I think the choice is made clearer if you increase the number of the pool from 3 and see what you would do in those circumstances.Glenn E. wrote:My choice as well. Possibly even "best two of the three."PhilW wrote:Best two of three. Two of them may be better than the other, but you have select the best two (i.e. better is always a comparative between at least two elements or groups, while best is a single element or group based on a criteria).jdaw1 wrote:There will be three numbers, and I am instructing somebody to take the average of the better two of them. Or should that be the best two of them?
So if the numbers are 10, 11 and 12, the result should be Average(11, 12) = 11½.
Better two of three, or best two of three?
How much would a completely fresh lobster salad be?You could also ask them how many salads you get with each lobster portion, too.djewesbury wrote:
The fig problem was a given. It was the fig problem that allowed all the other peculiarities to come into our purview.DRT wrote:You neglected to mention the fig problem. Was that deliberate?
I get that, but Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion, not mass murder, smuggling and extortion. It is important to include the lesser crimes in the charge just in casedjewesbury wrote:The fig problem was a given. It was the fig problem that allowed all the other peculiarities to come into our purview.DRT wrote:You neglected to mention the fig problem. Was that deliberate?
Of course that should have been, even if typed using a phone, “an Amicus Curia”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=73058#p73058]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:acting as a Amicus Curia
I thought Amicus Curiae?jdaw1 wrote:Of course that should have been, even if typed using a phone, “an Amicus Curia”.[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=73058#p73058]Here[/url] jdaw1 wrote:acting as a Amicus Curia
Hopefully, in the spirit of banks’ self-reporting of benchmark crimes, my self-reporting will result in a milder punishment.
Wikipedia agrees that further penance is required. For reasons of stupidity and English word order, I was attempting to singularise the adjective. Doh. Sackcloth and ashes.djewesbury wrote:I thought Amicus Curiae?
Note to self: pictures 17714 to 17719.Messrs Christie and Manson, in their splendid catalogue of the “Interesting and Valuable Collection of Antiquities … The Property of The Commandant Barbetti” to be auctioned on 1 June 1857, wrote:Scarabs, Mounted in Gold and Silver.147 …
Scarabs, In Cornelian, Mounted.162 …
Scarabæi, In Green Jasper, (not Mounted).408 …
Scarabs, In Soft Stone and Porcelain.442 …
Scarabæi, In Green Jasper, Mounted in Silver.460 …
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DRT wrote:Perhaps it is consistently incompetent type-setting / proof-reading?
Of both suggestions, I prefer the first. This is a rather cheap, rather old, paperback imprint. The type isn't even set square on the page. What puzzles me is why they would specially commission a bad set of the type. Surely they'd have just bought in the galleys and printed from them. Or maybe that's not how it worked.jdaw1 wrote:Nowadays we might write of the 1890s, whereas then they would have written of the 1890’s. Is this similar?
[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=74063#p74063]Here[/url] SushiNorth wrote:Any bottle, provide there is an 8 in it's vintage.
Glenn E. wrote:My totally inadequate digital camera is charging just in case the blood moon is visible in 2 hours. Tonight would be the night for me to have Derek's telescope if the internets is to be believed.
Not a crime. "The internets" is fairly common usage, at least in the US, to imply that blind faith in anything you read on the internet is unwise.DRT wrote:Glenn E. wrote:My totally inadequate digital camera is charging just in case the blood moon is visible in 2 hours. Tonight would be the night for me to have Derek's telescope if the internets is to be believed.
Agreed. Humorous and intentional. Not a crime. Which one of us etc etc Let he who is without etc etc.Glenn E. wrote:Not a crime. "The internets" is fairly common usage, at least in the US, to imply that blind faith in anything you read on the internet is unwise.DRT wrote:Glenn E. wrote:My totally inadequate digital camera is charging just in case the blood moon is visible in 2 hours. Tonight would be the night for me to have Derek's telescope if the internets is to be believed.
Read on the internets, therefore obviously not true.DRT wrote:Guilty as charged.
PhilW, [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8323#p75206]here[/url], wrote: […] last seen in it's prime at the Bell, in a photo amongst all it's friends; I'm hoping it found a well-cared for resting home with a new pub-owner.
Damn, sackcloth everywhere.djewesbury wrote:PhilW, [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=8323#p75206]here[/url], wrote: […] last seen in it's prime at the Bell, in a photo amongst all it's friends; I'm hoping it found a well-cared for resting home with a new pub-owner.
DRT wrote:… the knock on the door and some new knees is never far away.
More of a dialect thing than a crime - certainly not worth the lead pellets to the knees.djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:… the knock on the door and some new knees is never far away.
I'm not so sure a crime has been committed here...the knock on the door is singular, the new knees plural, however the new knees come as a composite bundle with the knock on the door, with the bundle able to be treated as a singular.djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:… the knock on the door and some new knees is never far away.
Whether or not DRT committed a crime, you certainly have. Sophistry of this kind is clearly injurious to the euphony of the tongue.flash_uk wrote:I'm not so sure a crime has been committed here...the knock on the door is singular, the new knees plural, however the new knees come as a composite bundle with the knock on the door, with the bundle able to be treated as a singular.djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:… the knock on the door and some new knees is never far away.
Please direct further correspondence to my solicitor (Derek).djewesbury wrote:Whether or not DRT committed a crime, you certainly have. Sophistry of this kind is clearly injurious to the euphony of the tongue.flash_uk wrote:I'm not so sure a crime has been committed here...the knock on the door is singular, the new knees plural, however the new knees come as a composite bundle with the knock on the door, with the bundle able to be treated as a singular.djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:… the knock on the door and some new knees is never far away.
Case dismissed.flash_uk wrote:Please direct further correspondence to my solicitor (Derek).djewesbury wrote:Whether or not DRT committed a crime, you certainly have. Sophistry of this kind is clearly injurious to the euphony of the tongue.flash_uk wrote:I'm not so sure a crime has been committed here...the knock on the door is singular, the new knees plural, however the new knees come as a composite bundle with the knock on the door, with the bundle able to be treated as a singular.djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:… the knock on the door and some new knees is never far away.
It doesn't work like that. You're both guilty. I refer this to the higher authority. Or at least his great big avatar.DRT wrote:Case dismissed.flash_uk wrote:Please direct further correspondence to my solicitor (Derek).djewesbury wrote:Whether or not DRT committed a crime, you certainly have. Sophistry of this kind is clearly injurious to the euphony of the tongue.flash_uk wrote:I'm not so sure a crime has been committed here...the knock on the door is singular, the new knees plural, however the new knees come as a composite bundle with the knock on the door, with the bundle able to be treated as a singular.djewesbury wrote:DRT wrote:… the knock on the door and some new knees is never far away.
Most disturbing. Is it too late to vote Raving Loony to avoid being associated with the Creepy Big Head Party?djewesbury wrote:I refer this to the higher authority. Or at least his great big avatar.
djewesbury, [url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=75320#p75320]here[/url], wrote:Too me this is a powerful expression of the beauty of democracy.
This is just silly. You are right as usual.SCP-DFF wrote:Is this more pedantic than we need to be? C'mon geeks. Lemme hear your thoughts on this one. My view? It's just silly.
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