myk
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No flames, but we got away with nitpicking language instead :p
Gez said:
Nah, that would have been just 1/350th of a T/nC.
I'm sure it should cause confusion to an undefined number of people reading it, given centesimal is usually used for fractional unit measures, in science or metrics, but it can also be read as "half of the seventh centesimal edition," where centesimal means "of or divided into hundreds" or "pertaining to progression by hundreds," instead of the other use, as "one half-times-seven-hundredth". See here for the two acceptations.
It would be highlighting the last and 350th edition to say there are 350 editions in total. The article "the" would also be weighing it toward this acceptation. To mark a fraction you're better off saying "a centesimal" or "one centesimal." The fact that there's normally no such thing as a fraction of an edition helps the perhaps unusual usage, too.
Take hundredth (a synonym of centesimal): It can similarly, but maybe more evenly, mean "#100" or "one of a hundred," depending on the situation.
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