quieries related to math handling in micro controllers

On Mar 6, 11:26 am, David Brown
<david.br...@hesbynett.removethisbit.no> wrote:
[...]
> spiders, centipedes, and other such creatures.  Lobsters and crabs are
> also arthropods, but probably not what most people mean by "bugs".

When we go out to the local Chinese place for lunch, a coworker
refuses to order any dish containing shrimp, because (he says) he
refuses to eat bugs.

Regards,

   -=Dave

In article <12cc4dec-41d3-4e85-9338-11f8596e39a8
@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>, spamfree@skytex.net says...
> On Mar 6, 11:26 am, David Brown
> <david.br...@hesbynett.removethisbit.no> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > Lobsters and crabs are also arthropods, but probably not what most people mean by "bugs".
> 
> Except in Louisiana!
> 
And in Maine.  When I took a cruise on  a schooner, the
cook polled the passengers to find out how many "bugs" to
cook for dinner.  The bugs in this case were lobsters.

Mark Borgerson

On 2008-03-06, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.removethisbit.no> wrote:

> I think you meant "spiders are not insects" - in general usage, even 
> amongst biologists, spiders *are* bugs.  Very technically, "bug" refers 
> to the hemiptera insects (these are sap-sucking insects).  But more 
> commonly, "bug" refers to arthropods in generally - and that includes 
> spiders, centipedes, and other such creatures.  Lobsters and crabs are 
> also arthropods, but probably not what most people mean by "bugs".

Scuba divers commonly refer to lobsters as "bugs".

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On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:26:57 -0800 (PST), the renowned Dave Hansen
<iddw@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Mar 6, 11:26 am, David Brown
><david.br...@hesbynett.removethisbit.no> wrote:
>[...]
>> spiders, centipedes, and other such creatures.  Lobsters and crabs are
>> also arthropods, but probably not what most people mean by "bugs".
>
>When we go out to the local Chinese place for lunch, a coworker
>refuses to order any dish containing shrimp, because (he says) he
>refuses to eat bugs.
>
>Regards,
>
>   -=Dave


The Chinese character for shrimp includes the "bug" radical. 

Cp: 

http://baike.baidu.com/view/69885.htm  (shrimp) 

http://baike.baidu.com/view/1487.htm (cockroach) 



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