Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Mathematicians have a really annoying tendency to use the word "elliptic" to refer to things that have only a tenuous connection with ellipses.
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Surprise
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Mathematicians do this? Or regular people? It reminds me of the misuse of things like parabolic. Exponential. Etc.
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