Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon at rece.vub.ac.be>:

> Op 15-07-16 om 08:06 schreef Marko Rauhamaa:
>> Common usage among educated speakers ordinarily is the yardstick for
>> language questions.
>
> But educated about what exactly?

In this case we are talking about those people who actively talk about
significand/mantissa. By and large, they call the thing mantissa.

I'm not at all irritated or confused by that (even if my opinion
mattered). I *am* irritated by Americans using "Km" for kilometer and
"msec" for millisecond (even though my opinion doesn't matter).


Marko