Op 15-07-16 om 11:20 schreef Marko Rauhamaa: > Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>: > >> Op 15-07-16 om 08:06 schreef Marko Rauhamaa: >>> Common usage among educated speakers ordinarily is the yardstick for >>> language questions. >> But educated about what exactly? > In this case we are talking about those people who actively talk about > significand/mantissa. By and large, they call the thing mantissa.
I think there is an important difference between actively talking about something and being educated (about it). I have known people who actively talked about negative feedback while what they actually meant was a vicious circle that technically was possitive feedback but with results they wanted to avoid. -- Antoon Pardon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list