Not to continue to push this discussion entirely off the rails, but, "equal-sized" is fine as an adjective with the hyphen indicating "equal" applies to "sized" - think of the difference between "high-school boys" and "high school-boys". "Equally sized" would be fine if "sized" were being used as verb, as in "Regular partitions equally sized the vector".
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think "equal-sized" is correct, based on: > > - How it sounds to my ear (albeit English is not my mother tongue). > > - Similar usage in writings by a noted writer and stylist. e.g. > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Kenneth_E._Iverson > contains "one-room school", "higher-dimensional array", > "6-month mini-sabbatical". > > - Google search of "equal-sized" produces 317,000 hits. > ("equally sized" produces 182,000 hit.) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008 1:46 > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] equal-size partitions > To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > > > > From: Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > Sorry, "typo". The verb and the numbers are correct, > > > but the description is wrong. It should be: > > > > > > The number of sets of x equal-sized subsets of y objects. > > > (Each subset is of size y%x.) > > > > > > ... > > > > > > Shouldn't it be "equally sized" (adv + participle) > > or "equal size" (adj + noun), and not adj + participle? > > (Dash appears in modifier phrase before noun.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
