[seqfan] Re: gentle reminder

[Alonso Del Arte]

I think we're getting into some rather silly territory if we're going to
police spelling and punctuation to normalize either to American or British
standards. I would hope most users of the OEIS have encountered both in
their readings and aren't thrown by either.

On my list of priorities:

1. Accuracy of terms given
2. Accuracy of formulas given
3. Accuracy of CAS commands
4. ...
999. Adherence to American spelling and grammar.

Al



On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM, <ghodges14 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Klaus. I don't remember ever seeing this list. It might be a good
> idea for the FAQ page to mention it.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew Vandermast
>
>
>
> toinal Message -----
> From: Klaus Brockhaus
> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list
> Sent: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 10:08:45 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: [seqfan]  gentle reminder
>
> The OEIS index has an entry "spelling and notation":
>
>    http://oeis.org/classic/Sindx_Sp.html
>    http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/Sindx_Sp.html
>
> It gives examples and is not exclusive / complete.
>
> *spelling and notation , guide to (start):
> *spelling and notation: the following are the correct spellings for some
> words and symbols that are commonly mistyped in the OEIS:
> spelling: > (not grth)
> spelling: >= (not \ge)
> spelling: a(n) for n-th term in sequence (not a[n])
> spelling: color (not colour - the OEIS uses U.S. spelling)
> spelling: dependent (not dependant)
> spelling: dissectable (not dissectible)
> spelling: e for 2.718281828... (not E)
> spelling: Fibonacci (not fibonacci)
> spelling: generalize (not generalise)
> spelling: J. S. Bach (not J.S. Bach - a period should be followed by a
> space, except in hyphenated names like J.-P. Serre)
> spelling: log(n) (not ln(x) or Log[x])
> spelling: log_10(x) for logs to base 10
> spelling: n X n (not n x n, not n by n)
> spelling: n-th, m-th, i-th, j-th, etc. (not nth, mth, ith, jth)
> spelling: neighbor (not neighbour)
> spelling: nilpotent (not "nil-potent")
> spelling: nonnegative (not non-negative)
> spelling: nonprime (not non-prime)
> spelling: nonzero (not non-zero)
> spelling: occurring (not occuring)
> spelling: Pi for 3.141592654... (not pi)
> spelling: prime(n) (not p(n) or Prime(n), etc.)
> spelling: recurrence (not recurence)
> spelling: semiprime (not semi-prime)
> spelling: sin(x) (not Sin[x])
> spelling: square-free (not squarefree)
> spelling: submatrix (not sub-matrix)
> spelling: tetranacci (not Tetranacci)
> spelling: tribonacci (not Tribonacci)
> spelling: zeros (not zeroes)
>
>
>
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