Re: [Patch] Fix ac_c99_complex configury

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| >Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de> writes:
| >
| >                              Do you say, in the
| >| US: "Columbus egg?" ;)
| >
| >what is it?
| >  
| >
| Oh well, a funny story about Columbus, the italian explorer, well known
| in the US too, of course. The story goes that people sitting and
| trinking around a table were trying to figure out a way to have a whole
| egg stand upright on the table.
| Columbus came out with a *clever*, *very simple* way to achieve that.
| There are (at least) two different versions of the story however:
| 1- If you shake very strongly an egg, without breaking it, however, the
| red relaxes from the middle where is latched normally, and falls down,
| then the center of gravity becomes much lower and the egg may actually
| stand upright like a russian Matrioska does (*very* cool, if true, never
| tried myself).
| 2- Alternately, much *less* elegant but still funny, you can just hit
| slightly the table with the bottom of the egg, making it flat without
| breaking it (works, definitely)
| 
| ;)

Thanks.  I know of Columbus and this egg story (obvisouly, under
different "name :-)) but I did not know it actually originated with
Columbus.  Thanks!

-- Gaby