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- From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: spell this?
- Message-ID: <MARTIN.93Jan11233144@lyra.cis.umassd.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 04:31:44 GMT
- References: <1isvrsINNe11@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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- In-Reply-To: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu's message of 11 Jan 1993 23:29:00 GMT
-
- In article <1isvrsINNe11@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard) writes:
-
- The raging debate here is the correct spelling of (choose one and
- supply a reference):
-
- a) nilpotentcy
- b) nilpotency
- c) other
-
- As in "the degree of nilpotency of a thing."
-
- I'm sure that c) is the correct spelling of 'other'. As for the choice
- between a) and b), I'd have to say that a) looks terribly awkward.
- The OED lists "potency" but not "potentcy", which pretty much convinces
- me.
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- Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
- Martin@cis.umassd.edu
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