on Sat Aug 02 2008, Daryle Walker <darylew-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
On Aug 1, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Michael Fawcett wrote:
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Hervé Brönnimann <hervebronnimann@mac.com> wrote:
This is not related to fixed-point per se, but why did boost.operators choose the spelling euclidian instead of the more common euclidean? I did check the Merriam-Webster, and both spellings are accepted (to my surprise), but I believe that most mathematicians use Euclidean...
I'm surprised too - I've never seen it spelled otherwise. I checked the APIs we're currently using and they all use Euclidean. Google pulls up 3,820,000 for euclidean, and 325,000 for euclidian (it also says "Did you mean: euclidean").
In Google Code Search it pulls up 44,600 for euclidean, and 7,000 for euclidian.
I just picked the first proper adjective form I found in a book or web page. (I think it was me; it was added via a change in <http:// svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/11813/trunk/boost/boost/ operators.hpp> from both me and Helmut Zeisel, and I forgot who did what. This is why checking in combined changes is bad, kids.) This was 7 years ago, before Goggle got big (and I got a separate CVS/SVN account), and who looked for a web-consensus back then?
It should be easy enough to change the official name in the library and leave an implementation under the old name for backward compatibility. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com