For Want of a Copy Editor the Sense Was Lost
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2017-02-17 23:01
When a Russian mathematician collaborates with a French computer scientist on a paper published by Elsevier in the Netherlands, what language do they choose?
Their paper was published in 2005 as “Decision problems for semi-Thue systems with a few rules” (Theoretical Computer Science 330: 145–169). The mistake there is using a few instead of few.