"pairwise" is not on m-w.com!

[gopunk]

spell check marked it... i was like wtf... checked m-w.com... not there. of course, OED has it. this makes 2 in one week now.... "quantile" and "pairwise". it's not like these are obscure words or anything...

 

[Atrail]

Not in Websters either...

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

quantile
Division of a distribution into equal, ordered subgroups; deciles are tenths, quartiles are quarters, quintiles are fifths, terciles are thirds, centiles are hundredths.
Origin: L. Quantum, how much, + -ilis, adj. Suffix

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Couldnt find pairwise though. That was from dictionary.com but it sent me to the CancerWEB's dicitonary cause it sucks

Interesting.

 

[gopunk]

yea... but quantile and pairwise are not really obscure words or anything... i'm sure there are less used words that actually are in m-w.com or something.

Not in Websters either...

m-w stands for merriam-webster

 

[Atrail]

Who the hell is Merriam ?

 

[Chaotic42]

What the heck is "pairwise"?

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Atrail
Who the hell is Merriam ?

good question.... looks like merriam is the former name of a publishing company. webster would be the guy who wrote dictionaries. so there are webster's dictionaries out there that are not made by merriam-webster.

it's all here

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
What the heck is "pairwise"?

i'm glad you asked that, chaotic42

In or by pairs; with regard to pairing; forming a pair.

you can use it in math like this:

"these numbers are pairwise relatively prime" this means that the gcd of any pair of numbers selected from the group will be 1.

i'd imagine you could also say something like "they got into the ferris wheel pairwise"

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: gopunk
spell check marked it... i was like wtf... checked m-w.com... not there. of course, OED has it. this makes 2 in one week now.... "quantile" and "pairwise". it's not like these are obscure words or anything...

The only place I've yet seen "pairwise" used is in my discrete math class, as in "pairwise relatively prime". The idea is you have a set of integers, and if the set is pairwise relatively prime that means that all of the possible pairs of integers have a greatest common denominator of 1.

I've never seen quantile used anywhere.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Hmm, you learn something new every day I guess. I'm pretty good with the English language, but I've never heard anyone use that word ever.

Weird.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: KingNothing

Originally posted by: gopunk
spell check marked it... i was like wtf... checked m-w.com... not there. of course, OED has it. this makes 2 in one week now.... "quantile" and "pairwise". it's not like these are obscure words or anything...

The only place I've yet seen "pairwise" used is in my discrete math class, as in "pairwise relatively prime". The idea is you have a set of integers, and if the set is pairwise relatively prime that means that all of the possible pairs of integers have a greatest common denominator of 1.

I've never seen quantile used anywhere.

yea that's the only place i remember seeing it too, but it sure sounds familiar

quantile is just a generalized form of "quartile" which i'm sure everybody has heard of...