Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| At 03:18 PM 8/18/2003, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:
| 
|  >At Monday 2003-08-18 11:39, you wrote:
|  >>"Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|  >>
|  >>| how about  "span" ?
|  >>
|  >>when read as "the period of time spanned by these two", I can make
|  >>sense of it, even not as a mathematician :-)
|  >>
|  >>Well, I don't know how it sounds to native speakers.
| 
| FWIW, I'm both a native-speaker and familiar with convex
| hulls. Regardless, "span" sounds better to me for use in the context
| of a Date-Time library.

Great! We're in violent agreement.

-- Gaby
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