Timeline for Rank and generators of elliptic curve
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| Dec 4, 2018 at 22:07 | comment | added | Noam D. Elkies | Well the phrase "petitio principii" hardly made sense in Latin, and its translation as "beg the question" makes even less sense in English for a form of circular reasoning. So it's natural for the phrase to be used as if it were "beg for the question". By now even Merriam-Webster recognizes "to elicit a question logically as a reaction or response" as the primary sense of the phrase, with secondary sense "to pass over or ignore a question by assuming it to be established or settled". merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beg%20the%20question | |
| Jul 10, 2017 at 20:22 | comment | added | Lucia | Sorry, pet peeve: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question | |
| Jul 5, 2017 at 3:19 | history | answered | Noam D. Elkies | CC BY-SA 3.0 |