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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Bisect: factorise "bisect_write_*" functions.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:29:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071023222938.GE1115@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v640x7a4n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:13:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sort of offtopic, but is "factorise" a correct verb here?  I
> thought "factorise" is to express a non prime number as the
> product of prime numbers.

"Factor" is a perfectly good verb on its own, no need for the "ise"
normally.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-23 22:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-14 12:29 [PATCH 4/7] Bisect: factorise "bisect_write_*" functions Christian Couder
2007-10-23 22:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-23 22:29   ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2007-10-23 22:36   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-10-24  4:09   ` Christian Couder

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