# malicapata *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jan 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Fernando Q. Gouvea *21 Jan 2003, 04:06* Hmmm... a "capon" is a castrated male chicken, from a Latin root that means "to cut", I think. So "badly cut"? Fernando ``` Fernando Q. Gouvea Department of Mathematics Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online Colby College Mathematical Association of America Waterville, ME 04901 http://www.maa.org fqgouvea at colby.edu ========================================================== When anyone says "theoretically," they really mean "not really." -- David Parnas -- ``` ---