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Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

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On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
<lawrencedo99@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 12:46:26 PM UTC+12, Ian wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>> How about “mantissa length”, then. That sufficiently neutral for you?
>>
>> That makes even less sense for integers.
>
> Perhaps you would prefer the more gender-neutral term “persontissa” ...

I would laugh, but gender issues are extremely significand to a lot of people...

ChrisA

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  Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 01:21 -0600
    Re: Curious Omission In New-Style Formats Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 17:34 -0700
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