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larelli on Sept 30, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Original Pentium FDIV flaw e-mail [1994]

And it wasn't incorrect either. -um is the ending for neutrums (actually neutra) and -a is the plural thereof.

jfb on Sept 30, 2010 [–]

True, except in that Pentium is an English neologism, and thus is pluralized like an English noun. Don't get me started on the plurals of octopus or virus, please.

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