[seqfan] Re: GCD vs. gcd in the OEIS

[Neil Sloane]

If you look in the Index to the OEIS (where many questions
of style are addressed), in section
https://oeis.org/wiki/Index_to_OEIS:_Section_Ga
you will see that GCD is the standard way to spell it.

Neil

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Charles Greathouse <
charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote:

> I think the Style Sheet should say something on the matter, though I'm
> not sure what. I had thought that the style was GCD but I found that
> this was not actually in the SS the last time I checked. My personal
> preference, for what little it is worth, is for gcd.
>
> Charles Greathouse
> Analyst/Programmer
> Case Western Reserve University
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Alonso Del Arte
> <alonso.delarte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Last year Peter Luschny raised the issue of when and when not to
> capitalize
> > the abbreviation for greatest common divisor on the Talk page for the
> Style
> > Sheet <http://oeis.org/wiki/Style_Sheet>, which, as of today, still has
> no
> > guidance on the matter. Some new sequences have been added to the OEIS
> that
> > may be inconsistently formatted in regards to this, and there might be
> some
> > older ones that could use adjustment.
> >
> > Peter has made a very sensible proposal to amend the Style Sheet, and, if
> > there are no objections, I think we should go ahead and put it in there.
> >
> > Al
> >
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