On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Minh Nguyen<nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
<SNIP> >> And is there a function (or at least an easy algorithm that I can >> implement myself) that for a given integer n answers the question >> whether it is "an %d-cochain"%n or "a %d-cochain"%n ? > > Any number that is spelt with a vowel, e.g. > > an eight-cochain > an eleven-cochain > an eighteen-cochain > > and you can safely put "a" before a number whose spelling begins with > a consonant. And we do this: "a one" not "an one", even though "one" starts with a vowel. -- Regards Minh Van Nguyen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---