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Revision as of 19:26, 25 May 2012 (view source) rosettacode>Paddy3118 (→‎octonacci vs. octanacci: Great!) ← Older edit		Revision as of 20:16, 25 May 2012 (view source) rosettacode>Gerard Schildberger m (→‎octonacci vs. octanacci: corrected spelling of Mathworld to MathWorld. -- ~~~~) Newer edit →
Line 13: :I wouldn't sweat it. [http://phrontistery.info/numbers.html This reference] shows both oct, octa and octo in use!? --[[User:Paddy3118\|Paddy3118]] 18:48, 25 May 2012 (UTC) ::: Yeah, in my REXX calculator, I accept both names. OEIS uses octanacci (with a misspelled ''octoancci'' reference that points to the ''octanacci'' sequence), and Wolfram ~~Mathworld~~MathWorld ™ doesn't mention either one. It's like the word ''hexadecimal'' --- it's wrong (mixing Greek with Latin), but it's too late to change it now. The common usage is so ingrained that everybody uses it and knows what it means. I suspect it will be with '''octo''' & '''octa'''. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger\|Gerard Schildberger]] 19:09, 25 May 2012 (UTC) :::: This just in ... the OEIS editors corrected the "misspelled/inconsistant" word (if only to be consistant with the other uses of the ''octanacci'' words, but they mentioned that both terms appear to be correct. That's good enough for me. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger\|Gerard Schildberger]] 19:14, 25 May 2012 (UTC)