Re: Country names
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 15, 2003, 23:38 |
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 05:36:20PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 10:42:56PM +0200, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > I occasionally write "tetragon" - I wasn't aware of the term
> > "quadrilateral". When feeling particularly obnoxious I'll speak
> > of "n-gons" ...
> I've actually seen n-gons fairly often as math major.
Yeah, using "n-gons" isn't obnoxious, especially in a serious
mathematical context. For that matter, "tetragon" isn't really
obnoxious, since geeks will figure out what you mean and your typical
man-on-the-street wouldn't understand "quadrilateral" either. :)
"Trigon", on the other hand, is likely to elicit a "huh?" response,
except perhaps among comic book geeks who will wonder why you're
talking about Raven's demonic father . . .
-Mark