Yamaha FG-840
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https://ruthlesseditor.com/optimum-vs-optimal-2/
"History of optimum
According to merriam-webster.com, scientists in the mid-19th century needed a word to describe the most favorable point, degree or amount; the best condition for the growth and reproduction of an organism. They took “optimus” from Latin to create the noun optimum.
It filled the scientific need, and optimum eventually gained use beyond the scientific community to broadly imply the best or most desirable.
A few decades later, optimum was being used as an adjective as well as a noun. That’s when optimal was coined to serve as an adjective, but the distinction is either not understood or not accepted by everyone.
A popular resource for writers, Garner’s Modern American Usage, prefers “optimum” as the noun and “optimal” the adjective."
"History of optimum
According to merriam-webster.com, scientists in the mid-19th century needed a word to describe the most favorable point, degree or amount; the best condition for the growth and reproduction of an organism. They took “optimus” from Latin to create the noun optimum.
It filled the scientific need, and optimum eventually gained use beyond the scientific community to broadly imply the best or most desirable.
A few decades later, optimum was being used as an adjective as well as a noun. That’s when optimal was coined to serve as an adjective, but the distinction is either not understood or not accepted by everyone.
A popular resource for writers, Garner’s Modern American Usage, prefers “optimum” as the noun and “optimal” the adjective."
I keep on thinking I'm finished here but Yamaha is so good at what he does it keeps bringing me back. In my last post I talked about how spamming is a form of censorship, how what Yamaha is doing is censorship. Here's an example.
For a while now Yamaha has been misusing the term global optimum, he doesn't know what it means and I don't understand why he was throwing it about in the first place. I challenged him to produce evidence, a paper or link or whatever, proving his point. He has not. Instead he has spammed and derailed the thread. Here is a quote:
He wasted an entire post with gibberish. This is how to derail a thread and stifle a free exchange of ideas. He hasn't said anything or added to what he said earlier. It's spam. And it's censorship, it blocks out other people's posts and opinions.