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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP packages of GNU units 1.80
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:42:58 +0200
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"Martin Str|mberg" <ams AT speedy DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se> wrote in message
news:1026566850 DOT 605764 AT queeg DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se...
> Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

> y = 9/5*x + 32 (or some variation thereof) surely looks extremely
> linear to me.

Could it be that the term 'nonlinear' is being loosely applied here to
conversions requiring monomial/polynomial funcions as opposed to a simple
ratio of conversion?

Ben