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Chinese-English Dictionary Public-domain Additions for Names Etc (CedPane)
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PD-English-Definitions.txt: math #54

Closed chinese-words-separator closed 1 year ago

chinese-words-separator commented 1 year ago

Request to add math to 数学 to PD-English-Definitions.txt

数学      mathematics/math

There are entries for 数学, mathematics, mathematical:

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But none for math:

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Thanks to your PD-English-Definitions.txt, CWS's dictionary lookup capability is supercharged, it can now lookup the Chinese words of the English word as well :)

I can't thank you enough for creating CedPane

ssb22 commented 1 year ago

Good idea. People don’t say “math” much round here, but it’s common in the States so let’s add it. I'm surprised typing "math" doesn't find "mathematics" though .. depends how many letters match I guess

chinese-words-separator commented 1 year ago

Good idea. People don’t say “math” much round here, but it’s common in the States so let’s add it.

Just chanced upon math while hovering Math.round in stackoverflow.com, surprised that math is not in the dictionaries nor in stemmed list, e.g.,

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after adding math to 数学 in PD-English-Definitions.txt:

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I'm surprised typing "math" doesn't find "mathematics" though .. depends how many letters match I guess

Just using stemmer, it can only match long against short (stemmed)