From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu>
Cc: jsm28@cam.ac.uk, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Manual style: "non-zero" vs "nonzero"
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 02:59:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lmijlrv9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110091940.f99JeIw28319@banach.math.purdue.edu>
Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
> To weigh in again in this debate, the Society of Industrial and
> Applied Mathematics recommends that "non" as a prefix
> not be hyphenated, that "semi" be hyphenated, and that "quasi"
> be a separate word.
What a strange rule! I haven't read much literature on semigroups, so
I don't know if it is customary to put a hyphen in it, "semi-group"
looks indeed rather strange. I've never seen "semi-simple" and "quasi
projective".
Perhaps SIAM made these rules only to annoy algebraists? ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-10 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-08 16:20 Brad Lucier
2001-10-08 20:50 ` Russ Allbery
2001-10-09 10:27 ` Phil Edwards
2001-10-09 10:43 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-10-09 12:40 ` Brad Lucier
2001-10-09 12:49 ` Geert Bosch
2001-10-09 13:27 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2001-10-10 2:59 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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2001-10-08 15:33 Joseph S. Myers
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