Bill DeWitt wrote:
> 
> Remco de Korte <rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote in message
> news:374807DD.1C8F9DC1@xs4all.nl...
> > I called it "Rekenbeest" which is something like "Calc-Beast" or
> > "CompuBeast".
> 
>     I wonder if 'reken' is the root of 'reckon', like "I reckon there's
> about 30 more hours of rendering" or " I reckon I better get me a cup of
> coffee while that thing's running".
> 
> Seat of the pants reckoning
> Dead reckoning
> Reconnoitering

It's (probably) related. "Rekenen" (the full verb) is dutch for calculus (at
school), or is it arithmatic?

Xy-nick-s

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