As suggested by Tassos, what we need now more than ever is some Dutch
diplomacy so that he healing can really begin. Various people have argued for
a shorter term (Brazilians, Pflugrath) and since I'm personally rather partial
to Brazilians I would say we ought to go with that and shave off a few
letters.
So: we need a shorter, unambiguous term. I also think it should sound
delicious. And it should be related to "structure (factor)" and "amplitude".
We could take the first few letters of "STRucture", add some of the last ones
of "amplitUDe". And to sweeten the deal (and reflecting the Austrian roots of
Bernhard R and the Teutonic dittos of Jim P), we could add a diminutive "l".
Thus we obtain:
STRUDL
So can we agree that, from now on, |F| is refered to as "strudl"? Examples of
usage:
- "I have deposited my experimental strudls and sigmas, boss!"
- "We calculated a SIGMAA-weighted map with coefficients two-m-strudl-obs
minus D-strudl-calc."
N.B.: In the special case that the |F| are the result of AP (auto-processing)
of FEL (free-electron laser) data, the appropriate term would obviously be:
"APFELSTRUDL".
--DVD
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Gerard J. Kleywegt
Dept. of Cell & Molecular Biology University of Uppsala
Biomedical Centre Box 596
SE-751 24 Uppsala SWEDEN
http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard/ mailto:ger...@xray.bmc.uu.se
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