Re: [Help-glpk] language and clarity

[Nigel Galloway]

As a native english speaker let me deny, on all our behalf,
resposibility for users of internet slang. see
http://www.internetslang.com/W_2F-meaning-definition.asp

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  Nigel Galloway
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Robbie Morrison wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Just a note to everybody that this list is read by
> non-native english speakers.  After looking at the
> "w/" (below) for a quite a while, I figured it
> means "with".  Google translate didn't understand
> it either.
> 
> > Solving the dual as Marc suggested works much
> > better. There were no failures even w/ 10,000
> > points whereas the original formulation
> > consistently fails w/ 1000 points.
> 
> In passing, I got told at a university seminar the
> other day that my question in native english was
> incompressible, that "we speak international
> english here", and thence followed attempts to
> translate.  Ouch.
> 
> best wishes, Robbie
> ---
> Robbie Morrison
> PhD student -- policy-oriented energy system simulation
> Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany
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> 
> 
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