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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Errata in kig.po(t)
From:       Burkhard =?iso-8859-1?q?L=FCck?= <lueck () hube-lueck ! de>
Date:       2009-12-21 7:30:34
Message-ID: 200912210830.34786.lueck () hube-lueck ! de
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Am Sonntag, 20. Dezember 2009 23:30:36 schrieb Orestes Mas:
> (please, forgive me the cross-posting)
> 
> In kig.po there are some recently added terms concerning Bézier curves.
>  More precisely, "Quadric" and "Cubic" Bézier curves are mentioned. I think
>  the word "Quadric" is an error and should be "Quadratic" instead, as you
>  can see in
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Examination_of_cases.
> 
> A "quadric" is a far more general mathematical object, namely an
>  hypersurface defined as the loci of zeros of a quadratic polynomial.
>  Nothing closely related to Bézier curves.
> 
Aleix Pol confirmed this change on kde-edu, so this error should be fixed.

Let's see what our mathematician Yuri says...

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Burkhard Lück

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