From: John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
To: Ludovic Court??s <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add maxima.
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 13:18:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140705171825.GA13133@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2djspvr.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 06:59:36PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 03:16:25PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> >> John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org> skribis:
> >>
> >> > * gnu/packages/math.scm (maxima): New variable.
> >>
> >> Should be ???maths.scm???, with an ???s.???
> >
> > OK. (why do we use the British convention here, but Americanisms for almost everything else?)
>
> Dunno, is ???mathematics??? (plural) particularly British? Aspell???s
> ???american??? dictionary recognizes it.
But in the abbreviated form most british people would say "maths" whereas most americans say "math".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-05 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-05 12:55 [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add gcl John Darrington
2014-07-05 12:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add maxima John Darrington
2014-07-05 13:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-05 14:04 ` John Darrington
2014-07-05 16:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-05 17:18 ` John Darrington [this message]
2014-07-05 19:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-05 19:49 ` Unprintable characters John Darrington
2014-07-05 20:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-06 10:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-05 13:15 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add gcl Ludovic Courtès
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