Greetings, On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Owen DeLong wrote:
I'm sorry to quibble with the majority here, but, in this case, I think we have enough problems with ambiguous terminology in networking and this opportunity to avoid creating one more should not be missed.
(The above paragraph was mainly so that I had an opportunity to toss quibble into the text with it's other meaning).
Agreed. OTOH, Hextet is not technically correct while appearing to be so.
True... The correct term would be decohextet, but, decohextet is rather long both to say and to write and really doesn't roll off the tongue the way hextet does.
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