"Summation" already means something else, and funnily enough words can have different meanings in different contexts without causing any confusion.
Morlark
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OP literally emphasised the distinction between process and result in their post, specifically so that this exact confusion would not occur, and yet still everyone is talking about the word for the result instead of the process.
A couple of guys couldn’t handle a few troll messages? Sorry, if we want an independent site, away from the hands of venture capitalists, you’re gonna have to tough it out and deal with a few nasty messages.
No they aren't. Clearly they don't have to, as they are in fact shutting the instance.
They're providing a service, as volunteers, for free, and asking nothing in return. By definition they get to set the terms on which they do that, and it is astonishingly selfish for you to expect them to do so under conditions that are clearly untenable, and blame them for this outcome when they cannot continue.
No. If you want an independent site, away from the hands of venture capitalists, you should've stepped up and volunteered to admin when they needed help.
PCCs were a mistake. Never should we have let the ruling class impose a politicised police force upon us. It was inevitable that it would lead to ignorant nonsense like this.
I never cease to be baffled by the seemingly boundless glee with which Americans will repeat this myth that has no basis outside of Internet cope. Literally nobody born in the last 100 years would read "trump" to mean "fart". The only meaning of "trump" to British people is the winning suit in a game of cards, or the concept of winning in general. There's literally a collectible card game in Britain called "Top Trumps", and let me tell you, it ain't about huffing farts. Unlike your absurd comment.
And even if people did understand "trump" to mean "fart", it's still an astonishing feat of mental gymnastics to claim that "it makes no sense that you would elect someone called that", because funnily enough, a person's name is totally unrelated to their ability to do the job, and lots of people have funny-sounding names that go completely unremarked upon, because people understand that a name is just a name.
I absolutely hate the guy, and yet when I see people purporting to make fun of his name based on something that isn't even true, rather than, y'know, attacking his actual policies and actions, it makes me despair at the pathetic state of American politics. Seriously, your country is going to the dogs, and the best thing you could think of to combat that is to baselessly make fun of a guy's name?
There was certainly a 'no-brain' somewhere in her thought process, I'll grant her that.
But a tomato isn't even an actual fruit...
"Actual" refers to the ordinary "plain English" meaning. Under the "plain English" definition, i.e. non-technical, non-domain-specific, a tomato is a vegetable.
It's a botanical fruit, but an actual vegetable.
That feels like a rather tactless choice of phrasing in the headline, given that there are people literally under fire by Israel right now.
No. Everywhere uses the same terms, you just didn't understand the question.
The result of addition is the sum. The sum is calculated by summation of inputs.
The result of multiplication is the product. The product is calculated by __________ of inputs.
OP's question is: why can't the blank be "production", by analogy with "summation"?