[fortran,patch] fix typos

Brooks Moses bmoses@stanford.edu
Mon Oct 16 20:23:00 GMT 2006


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" 
tends to find reasonably good results -- there are a lot of up-to-date 
dictionaries of computer terms online that it looks through.

>>>-is discontiguous.
>>>+is discontinuous.
>>
>>I'm reasonably sure that the word intended here was "non-contiguous",
>>not "discontinuous".
> 
> I reverted to "discontiguous"; I also incorporated the change to
> -Wimplicit-interface as suggested by Bernhard Fischer.

Well, I think you were right the first time in considering this to be an 
error -- I merely objected to the way of fixing it.  :)

Google does find a lot of people using "discontiguous", though, so maybe 
it's a real word.  On the other hand, "noncontiguous" is more common, 
and I think it sounds a lot better.

- Brooks



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