On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Simon King<simon.k...@nuigalway.ie> wrote: > > Hi Minh, > > On Aug 29, 12:32 pm, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Minh Nguyen<nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] >> And we do this: "a one" not "an one", even though "one" starts with a vowel. > > Ah, that confirms my feeling towards "an one-cochain". > > And I have a similar aversion against "an Unix machine" (without > intention to offend Unix, but I would say "a Unix machine"). What do > natives think? So, isn't it only about the vowels a,e,i, after all?
I would say its very complicated. But in the case of non-negative numbers, which was your original question, I would say "an x-cochain" if the 1st digit of x starts with an 8 and "a x-cochain" otherwise. You might be able to re-phrase things so that the "a"/"an" issue does not arise (eg, if the cochain is unique then replace "a"/"an" by "the"). > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
