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 ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:59:46 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [email protected] > 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 :-) > > /* Steinar */ > -- > Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
