[time-nuts] Misuse of word "decimate" (was Re: Short term 10MHz source)
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Jan 11 08:24:24 UTC 2019
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In message <293ce126-e9ef-40a2-e742-966d638cfda3 at rubidium.se>, Magnus Danielson
writes:
I can add that as of this morning, "decimate" is also used for the act
of reading only every Nth email in a long thread :-)
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