Timeline for Sieve vs filter? Are they opposites?
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| Sep 5, 2014 at 15:25 | history | edited | James Waldby - jwpat7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 21:36 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | If we're nit-picking, (1) in my experience, 40 years ago it was the other way round in BrE; (2) 'sieve' is often capitalised. Like 'Wikipedia'. I'm bringing out the point that the choice of 'sieve' rather than 'filter' in the noun phrase probably informs the choice of verb, though 'filter out' might be preferable. Or at least, I'm trying to. What is going on on this site? | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 21:31 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 21:25 | comment | added | Hellion | In my experience, it is never phrased as "Eratosthenes's sieve", but always "the sieve of Eratosthenes". (This is even true in the title of the linked wikipedia page.) | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 19:35 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 19:33 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I'm pointing out that the nounal usage ('Eratosthenes's sieve') is a crystallised term, but that I feel the preferred verb to use is 'filter (out)'. | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 19:27 | comment | added | Dan Bron |
I've always understood "Eratosthenes' sieve" metaphorically to be an object; Eratosthenes constructed a sieve, and it is this sieve through which numbers are filtered. That is, the algorithm is a noun. Of course, the algorithm is also a process, and indeed prime sieves are described in that WP link as "processes" (in the case of WP's descripion, specifically subtractive processes: ...progressively removing...).
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| Sep 4, 2014 at 19:21 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |