The Grammarphobia Blog: Why is “m” a symbol for slope?: "In Mathematical Circles Revisited (2003), the math historian Howard W. Eves suggests that it doesn’t matter why “m” has come to represent slope.
“When lecturing before an analytic geometry class during the early part of the course,” he writes, “one may say: ‘We designate the slope of a line by m, because the word slope starts with the letter m; I know of no better reason.’ ”"
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Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
RFC 6125 - Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS)
RFC 6125 - Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS):
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Some dislike wildcard certificates.
Me: I want wildcard signing certificates. E.g. I want to be able to sign certificates for anything under https://*.andy.glew.ca
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Some dislike wildcard certificates.
Me: I want wildcard signing certificates. E.g. I want to be able to sign certificates for anything under https://*.andy.glew.ca
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