On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > On 2012-01-15 21:38, Simon King wrote: >> And a few hours ago, William told me that bsd.math refers to Birch and >> Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture... > Really? Makes sense though, it just never occured to me. Naming an OSX > box "bsd" because Darwin is based on BSD made just enough sense to me > not to question the name.
Really. In fact, when I made up the name it didn't occur to me that anybody would interpret it as anything other than "Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer"! William -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
