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Columbia Law School professor Eben Moglen has been the Free Software Foundation's (pro bono) general counsel since 1993. He's also involved with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and has been mentioned on Slashdot a number of times because of his participation in these groups and some of the worthy causes they support, as well as other freedom-related matters. One question per post, please. We'll run Prof. Moglen's answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions as soon as he gets them back to us.
Did I violate the FDL? (If I did, I must apologize to V. Alex Brennen.)
What I've come to think about is that it seems the FDL requires that the full license text accompanies every copy. When you're making single-page excerpts, it is of course very inconvenient to include a four-page license... But is it really necessary to include the whole license, or is it sufficient to include a short copyright notice referencing the FDL?
Employee of Inrupt, Project Release Manager and Community Manager for Solid
To expand what you just said:
"What does a period represent" "it represents pi" ergo "A period represents pi."
You can't possible mean that.
Read my original post again. I did not ask what the sig meant, I asked (to quote my whole post) "What does a period between numerals represent in a number system that does not use a consistent base?"
You seem to have some difficulty with the English language.
So, thank you for your continued efforts to explain the fact that his sig is meant to represent pi in roman numerals. You seem to feel pretty clever for figuring this out all by yourself. The fact is, however, that I felt that the fact that it was meant to be pi was so self-evident that there was no need to point out that I understood.
Now, I'm going to fill you in on what my post was actually about. The fact is that a "roman point" doesn't make any sense. (A "decimal point" is only used in decimal: base 10. A binary point is used in base 2, etc.) Since roman numerals don't use a consistent base, a "roman point" can't have any meaning. It was a rhetorical question. It was a question that has no answer, designed to bring the person being asked to this point through his own thought process. I'm surprised that you didn't pick up on this, since you use fancy Latin words like ergo and fancy rhetorical phrases like "in point of fact."
-Peter