As a "non-native"  speaker you are excused:)

Your posts are very clear and understadable.

But Americans in particular have taken to using i.e. when they mean e.g..

e.g. "take a power of two i.e. 2^5".


In the case of your example, it could have been either way.

David




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> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:59:46 +0100
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> Subject: Re: [Prime] Shifting the residue
> 
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 12:44:24PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > I actually meant "i.e." there, as it was referring to the example of p=7
> > introduced earlier. Perhaps the semantics was somehow confusing, though :-)
>                                             ^^^
> 
> "were". I'm not a native speaker :-)
> 
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