On Friday 30 March 2007 22:57, Steve Langasek wrote: > The meaning of the original sentence is > > It will guess *that* the broadcast address is the bitwise OR of your > system's IP address with the bitwise negation of the netmask. > > which in turn suggests to me an improvement, > > It will *assume* that the broadcast address is the bitwise OR... As it is only used as a default, I would say "assume" is not an improvement as "assume" implies that weird things could happen if the assumption is incorrect. A possible improvement would be "... it will calculate the broadcast address as ...", but I've just reverted back to the original text as IMO that is fine too.
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