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- Cipher vs. Cypher - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The Oxford Dictionary gives both cipher and cypher in that order The preference for cipher over cypher seems to be a little greater in American English than in British English The Corpus of Contemporary American English has just over three times as many records for cipher than it has for cypher The British National Corpus has only one and a
- Cipher vs Cypher - British English vs American English
It is from sense 5 of the word cipher cypher in the Oxford English Dictionary Of course the word began life from the French cuffre (modern French chiffre ) with an entirely different meaning (the figure, nought) in the 14th century
- What is the semantic difference between encipher and encrypt?
Cypher A system of writing that prevents most people from understanding the message A cypher, is secret writing, a symbol or code, that means something other than its own self You might use invisible ink or have a letter for letter conversion code You could be a gypsy, placing two stones and a stick, to indicate a water source
- idioms - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Nonetheless, I've been asked to provide some degree of specificity: the first example that always comes to mind is the scene in The Matrix where Cypher is eating a steak and talking to the agent Cypher says: "I know this steak doesn't exist; I know that when I put in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it's juicy and delicious
- What do you call each individual component of a number: a digit, a . . .
"Digit" refers to the characters used to write out a number "Places" refers to the number and location of digits needed to write out the number "n-figure" is simply a count of the digits needed ignoring any fractional part
- siphon vs. syphon - any reason to prefer one over the other?
Siphon is the common and preferred form My very big dictionary (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition) contains no distinct entry for syphon
- Whats the difference between think it helpful and think its . . .
I think it helpful to mention the caveats in the document This is the same construction as “I shot him dead” or “She arrived drunk”
- What is the origin of prepone in Indian English?
AND when the wet or dry Inches are even, and less than 10, you are to place a Cypher before and after, thus, 09 0 ; and if more than 10, only after them, thus, 19 0 ; and if less than one Inch, thus, 005, where your Columns will admit of it ; or there is Room to alter your true Gauge by preponing or postponing any Figure
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