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No Cadets at Annapolis
Regarding the March 13 Metro section headline "City Council Considers Slavery Apology, Cadet Case":
Former Navy quarterback Lamar S. Owens Jr. is not a "cadet." He and all students at the U.S. Naval Academy are midshipmen. Midshipman is a rank in the Navy. Students at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., are cadets.
I would expect The Post to know this, given that the Naval Academy is in your back yard.
-- Tom Eversole
Alexandria
Minus Right Terminology
I'm no mathematician, but it seems to me the "easy" quiz show question posed in "Easy Does It" [Style, March 13] is quite difficult. The reporter, Paul Farhi, suggests that the "Twenty-One" game show scam would have been found out if one of the contestants had been asked "the sum of five times two."
If I remember my elementary school math, there is no "sum" of anything times anything. The "sum" of five and two is seven. The "product" of five times two is 10.
