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Questions of the kind "What's the name for a X that satisfies property Y?"

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What are examples of mathematical concepts named after the wrong people? (Stigler's law)

the functional equations of the $L$ functions; these factors are also called "nombres radiciels" ("root-numbers", "Wurzelzahlen"), undoubtedly because of Hilbert, who a had a sort of genius for bad terminology
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Name of a difference of continuants

I am getting ready to publish the manuscript http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.4631v2.pdf and I am trying to do due diligence on a quantity I study before it gets published. (This is cross-posted from Name …
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