{"id":2380,"date":"2012-05-10T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/math.columbia.edu\/~dejong\/wordpress\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2012-07-14T00:05:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T00:05:45","slug":"non-zero-divisors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~dejong\/wordpress\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"Non zero-divisors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the example of xkcd<\/a> I somtimes try to figure out what is the correct terminology by searching different spellings and observing the number of hits. I did this for variants on the phrase in the title but I didn’t find the results convincing. (Google thinks of “-” and ” ” both as whitespace.)<\/p>\n

Bing
\n“non zero divisor” 8,630 results
\n“non zero-divisor” 7,490 results
\n“non zerodivisor” 9,190 results
\n“nonzero divisor” 1,900 results
\n“nonzerodivisor” 9,560 results<\/p>\n

Blekko
\n“non zero divisor” 5K results
\n“non zero-divisor” 4K results
\n“non zerodivisor” 5K results
\n“nonzero divisor” 2K results
\n“nonzerodivisor” 61 results<\/p>\n

Google
\n“non zero divisor” 75,300 results
\n“non zero-divisor” 75,300 results
\n“non zerodivisor” no results found
\n“nonzero divisor” 6,490 results
\n“nonzerodivisor” 4,120 results<\/p>\n

Yuhao Huang emailed to say he prefers “non zero-divisor”. I guess that is better and I’ll probably make a global change in the stacks project later today. Any objections or suggestions?<\/p>\n

Update (3PM): I’ve decided to go with Jason’s suggestion, see here for changes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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