Hello Tom, *, On Sonntag, 5. Januar 2014 16:52 Tom Davies wrote: > Ok, so "Lim" does mean limits but just isn't short for the English > word "limits". > > Also it's a generic term and NOT specifically about 1 type of > limits, such as either just the upper or just the lower ones. > > 2 of us did an internet search for the pedantically correct term = > "limes" and got stuff about fruit and rocks but nothing about > Calculus.
I just did the search for a fitting translation for "Lime", what I have mentioned in my first mail ... ;) And for it, I found translations, which indicates either a fruit or a kind of stone ... :( But I was not sure, if it was an missing "s" at the end, a wrong word in this context or something else ... :( You could test it yourself with inserting "Mathematik Lime Übersetzung" in a search engine of your choice ... ;) > When i did another search and made it clear that > "limes" was Latin rather than English i got a few hits but nothing > hugely > useful. Searching for "limits" did get a ton of useful results > that normal users might find useful if they were doing their own > research > outside of the LO help guides. So i am not quite sure about how > useful it was to be pedantic because it just added confusion when > we were really just searching for a practical answer but it is > interesting to find the roots of words, so thanks for that :) Indeed, it is :) Have a nice afternoon Thomas <Fullquote removed> -- NP: Tribes of Neurot – Trial -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
