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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Tom McDonald writes:
> [...] Words like "diesel" or "ohm" are no longer capped when impersonally
> used. [...]
I'll never forget the day my Intro Calc prof was talking about capitalization
and adjectives. He said, "The highest recognition -- the highest honor -- we
can get as mathemeticians is a hundred years after we die, to have our name
written in lowercase. That's why we say a function is lipschitz continuous,
not Lipschitz continuous, and why we speak of boolean equations, not Boolean
equations."
:)
--Todd
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