- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 08:18:04 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Dave Kristol <dmk@allegra.att.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Dave Kristol wrote: > > Please, there's no word "genericity". > Well, you are right in the sense that it does not occur in the Oxford English Dictionary, but it is a very widely used technical term in mathematics. It means the property of being generic (which is another technical term). I just did a search of Mathematical Revues and found 68 articles with the word "genericity" in the title. This is off the subject though as your point was well taken. John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University john@math.nwu.edu
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