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Do you get annoyed because the math library is called math instead of maths?
One of my European friends always gets into arguments with me on whether "math" or "maths" is correct, so I couldn't help but wonder how annoying it might get when you have to put something such as "rand = math.random(1,5)" instead of "rand = maths.random(1,5)". |
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Math makes more sense anyway. Mathematics isn't plural, it's uncountable. And "math" is easier to say. In addition, it's shorter. There really is not reason to complain.
Especially not on an American holiday, which is what I expected this to be about.
Besides, if this is really that much of a problem,
local maths,math = math,nil; |
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I never said that I thought maths was right. I know it's incorrect. I was just wondering if non-Americans were annoyed by it.
Also, just because you can get around it doesn't mean you wouldn't be annoyed by it. Example: In Python, booleans take capital False and capital True. I can get around this by putting false = False and true = True in my code whenever I need to use booleans, but that doesn't mean I'm not annoyed by it. |
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cntkillmeJoin Date: 2008-04-07
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You mean False = false and True = true? |
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@cnt, no in python the values are True and False. It's annoying to capitalize it every time, it is annoying.
So he did mean:
false,true = False,True |
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I never get annoyed by it. I don't even remember the last time I said maths or wrote maths out and I'm American. |
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cntkillmeJoin Date: 2008-04-07
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Oops, I though you were doing that as if to make Lua's true = True |
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"Also, just because you can get around it doesn't mean you wouldn't be annoyed by it. Example: In Python, booleans take capital False and capital True. I can get around this by putting false = False and true = True in my code whenever I need to use booleans, but that doesn't mean I'm not annoyed by it. " |
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VorliasJoin Date: 2009-08-27
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Considering I do programming in American English, no. |
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Well if it truly did annoy them they can easily solve it by doing;
maths = math
print(maths.random(), maths.rad(1))
Works just the same so. |
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Not too much, and it does reduce the amount I actually have to type. |
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AlyteJoin Date: 2011-10-24
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american english > english english
and this is coming from an english guy
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AlyteJoin Date: 2011-10-24
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when there were dinosaurs and it was black and white and stuff, england mixed its version of english with french for some stupid reason, which made it even worse than it already is, meanwhile in the USA they kept it the same :D |
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TenalJoin Date: 2011-05-15
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"maths" is unbelievably hard to pronounce |
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MettaurSpJoin Date: 2010-03-20
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How tenal? The transition from "th" to "s"? It isn't that hard for me o3o |
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TenalJoin Date: 2011-05-15
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the lack of vowel between th and s |
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cntkillmeJoin Date: 2008-04-07
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maths is pretty disgusting to say, like ghosts |
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Canadian English > American English.
You get the best of both worlds, and an excuse to use both ways. |
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XX050Join Date: 2013-04-30
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'american english > english english'
'Canadian English > American English.'
All types of English are roughly the same. There are no things such as 'American English' or 'Canadian English' because that does not make sense. Canadian English is not better than American English or English. English is original therefore you cannot compare it. |
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AlkanJoin Date: 2008-12-04
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i totally confused 'math' and 'matematicas' all the time |
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