Re: little gee and its sign

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I've just been reading Strunk and White (1979 ed., for pleasure) and learned
usage  applies only to language otherwise use is the correct form.

bc  who sometimes purposely and more often with ignorance uses incorrect usage.




Jim Green wrote:

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> In my usage, "g(x)" is not acceleration -- ever, anywhere, anyhow. And, in
> my opinion, such usage is extremely pedagogically detrimental. Depending on
> the level of the class g is a local gravitational constant/factor. The
> operative word here is "local" -- This usage doesn't require the value to
> be the same everywhere on the face of the Earth for all time. (And if that
> usage isn't free from dispute, then I will massage the definition until it
> fits.)   But others are free to use or misuse the language anyway they like.

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