From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Vocabulary matter: Component vs Element vs Item
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:53:49 +0200
Date: 2013-07-26T20:53:49+02:00 [thread overview]
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Le Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:42:21 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/component
> 1. a constituent part : ingredient
> 2-A. any one of the vector terms added to form a vector sum or resultant
> 2-B. a coordinate of a vector; also : either member of an ordered pair
> of numbers
Drifting a bit now: 2-B make me feel Component should be used for a
polynomials, and not Element. Is this is OK?
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2013-07-25 16:38 Vocabulary matter: Component vs Element vs Item Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-25 19:01 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-25 19:29 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-07-25 20:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-26 7:59 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-26 18:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-26 18:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2013-07-26 19:29 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-27 3:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-27 8:18 ` Simon Wright
2013-07-27 3:35 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-07-27 15:57 ` Shark8
2013-07-26 9:56 ` Manuel Collado
2013-07-26 17:24 ` Charles H. Sampson
2013-07-26 18:29 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-07-26 19:12 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-26 19:56 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-07-29 20:25 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
2013-07-29 22:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-07-30 13:46 ` Eryndlia Mavourneen
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