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Re: [fortran,patch] fix typos
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Brooks Moses wrote:
>Tobias Burnus wrote:
>>Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>>>where significand could also sometimes mean mantissa, i think
>>
>>I really should check more dictionaries :-(
>>The good old Oxford English Dictionary does not contain "significand"
>>and the Marriam-Webster does neither.
>>
>>But Oxford's "A Dictionary of Computing" indeed contains:
>>"In the context of computing, a more common name for the mantissa is the
>>'significand'."
>
>Also, for this sort of thing, a Google search on "define:significand"
I strongly object to letting google decide on the correct spelling of
words. We have dict as a client, dictd and alot of dictionaries that
you can install. These tend to be more accurate than weighting peoples
favourite misspellings :)