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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 03:07:32PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
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>
> On 31/08/10 15:04, Anders Logg wrote:
> > "Poisson equation" sounds strange to me. Shouldn't it be either
> > "Poisson's equation", "The Poisson equation", or "A Poisson equation"?
> >
>
> "Poisson equation" is commonly used.

I've never seen it and think it looks strange.

> So is "Poisson's equation", but we
> don't use "Stokes'", "Cahn-Hilliard's", "Navier-Stokes'", etc. It's not
> "A", because there is only one.

I don't use "Navier-Stokes' equations". I write "the Navier-Stokes
equations" to get around that.

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Anders