reopen 210879 ! thanks
The story so far... AC reported that certain language was ambiguous. Many objections ensued**, the substance of which can be divided in two types. The first kind was from non-native English speakers who honestly didn't see any ambiguity. The second kind was from mathematically minded English speakers who held that ambiguity is subjective and therefore irrelevant to "technical" topics -- to detect ambiguity therein is to misread. Being programmers, probably some of the non-native English speakers are also mathematically minded. (**why so many objections to a mere wishlist bug? Dunno...) Alternative wordings have been suggested, but there's been no replies on those yet, perhaps because doing so might be a tacit admission of error, or because nobody's paying attention, though #210879's turn-around time from open to closed seems incongruously rapid.
