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Subject: Re: [office-formula] "settlement The settlement date."
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 15:47 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote: > Greetings! > > Even assuming (perhaps incorrectly) a uniform semantic: > > "settlement The settlement date." > > is meaningless. This is not quite as meaningless as it might seem. The first word is the character string that is used in the syntax (and hopefully the mathematical formula.) The last 3 words are the explanation. It probably wouldn't look as strange if it were: "arg3 The settlement date." As long as we have a formula describing how the return value is being calculated from the arguments saying "arg3 The settlement date." is just an indicator what is the purpose of that argument. > Standards are about *defining* semantics, for good or ill. > > Perhaps, "... to boldly define where no one has dared to define > before....." ;-) > > Suggestions for a definition? We need a formula. A definition of "settlement" is really useless (if at all possible.) For example we surely do not need a definition of "DegreesOfFreedom" (It is simply the name usually used for a certain parameter in the formula for various distribution. It does not have a meaning even if many stats books try to "explain" what it is.) Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow@pyrshep.ca>
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