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Subject: Re: [boost] [ratio] Assignation between equivalent ratios
From: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-07 17:47:46


Christian Schladetsch wrote:
> This may seem petty, but is there a specific need or demonstrable pretext
> for the use of Americanised 'z' over the traditional 's' in the term
> 'normalize'?
>
As a long time engineer, I have to say that I've always liked the way
you could deduce something about the country of an engineer from
spellings like this. I would not want to lose that charming aspect of
the software engineering life by suggesting to people that they spell
like I do.

Patrick


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