Stefan van der Walt wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:10:20PM -0500, Colin J. Williams wrote: > >> Many thanks. In general, there is sense in the Python dictum about having >> one >> way to do things. Although, in this case [length] vs length for one >> dimension >> doesn't >> exercise me greatly. I would be a bit more concerned about synonyms. >> >> Nobody has proposed using English yet - zeroes. >> > > If Cambridge Advanced Learner's is happy with zeros, then so we should > be: > > http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=92164&dict=CALD > > zero Show phonetics > noun plural zeros or zeroes > 1 [C or U] (the number) 0; nothing: > > I think the American-english speakers on the list outnumber the rest > of us, so we'd better be careful :) > You know, I spell this wrong at least every other time I use it. But of course, if we changed it to "zeroes", I'd -still- spell it wrong every other time I used it.
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