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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:23:45PM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> Could we rename "det" in FFC (and in turn in AffineMap in DOLFIN) to
> something like "scale" or "scaling"? This would be more consistent when
> integrating over cell edges and faces, in which case the scaling is not
> equal to the determinant of the Jacobian of the cell.
> 
> Garth

I remember this problem from a while ago when I implemented
boundary integrals in a very early version of DOLFIN. I didn't know
what to name the determinant for the facet. I think "scaling" sounds
good.

/Anders