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When I use a word . . . Medical hypercorrection

I define “hypercorrection as “incorrectly correcting what’s already correct, wrongly thinking it to be wrong.” The example that is usually quoted when defining the word is “between you and I,” which should be “between you and me.” Apologists for this misuse give several reasons: they say that “you and I” is a compound pronoun in the objective (accusative) case; they say that great writers have often used the form in this way; they say that many people do it now, so it must be...
United Kingdom United States William Shakespeare Bertrand Russell Samuel Pepys Richard Steele
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What Is a Flop?

A flop is one of the elementary arithmetic operations $latex +$, $latex -$, $latex *$, $latex /$ carried out on floating-point numbers. For example, evaluating the expression $latex (b - ax)/c$ takes three flops. A square root, which occurs infrequently in numerical computation, is also counted as one flop. As an example, the computation of…
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory New Mexico United States Los Alamos Paolo Bientinesi Cleveb Moler

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