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.
next prev parent 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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