From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:36:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Bisect: factorise "bisect_write_*" functions.
Message-ID: <471E7766.6000303@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7v640x7a4n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sort of offtopic, but is "factorise" a correct verb here?  I
> thought "factorise" is to express a non prime number as the
> product of prime numbers.
> 

It's the reverse of expanding brackets, like so:
2x² + x - 3 = (2x + 3)(x - 1)

> "refactor" is the act of splitting and merging pieces of
> functions for better reuse, isn't it?
> 

Yes.

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