29 Mar
2014
29 Mar
'14
5:29 p.m.
On 03/29/2014 04:37 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
Please get this right. Zeroes. Two 'e's.
Otherwise I will feel pain every time I encounter zeros. Looks Greek.
zeros is way more popular than zeroes:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=zeroes%2Czeros&year_start=1900&year_end=2013&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Czeroes%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Czeros%3B%2Cc0 This subthread is confirming my original instinct to just avoid the problem entirely because*either* choice is inevitably confusing for a non-trivial subset of users:)
Yes, and we don't have nones for lists and tuples, or spaces for strings. ;-) Ron