From: julio@diegidio.name   
      
   On Wednesday, 30 November 2022 at 11:24:17 UTC+1, Tim Rentsch wrote:   
   > Julio Di Egidio  writes:   
   > [edited for brevity]   
   > > On Tuesday, 29 November 2022 at 13:29:48 UTC+1, Tim Rentsch wrote:   
   > >..> On Monday, 21 November 2022 at 21:45:34 UTC+1, Ben Bacarisse wrote:   
   >   
   > >..>> Consider any ordered measure that "wraps round" -- bearings in   
   > >..>> degrees, minutes in the hour, indeed hours in either the 12 or   
   > >..>> 24 hour clock. The problem is to determine if a given value is   
   > >..>> in the sub-range specified by a start and an en value.   
   > >   
   > >> The question can be answered without using any of subtraction,   
   > >> remainder, or mod,   
   > >   
   > > No, it cannot. But feel free to prove me wrong.   
   >   
   > At this point I see no reason to try to convince you.   
      
   You have never had any reason, so that is hardly surprising.   
      
   > I first posted in net news (back when it was called usenet) back   
   > in the mid 1980s. My first experience with computer programming   
      
   So you do not even have the age excuse...   BTW, how do you think   
   it's called now?  A rhetorical question.   
      
   Julio   
      
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