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Matlab and SciPy both have ‘cumtrapz’ for trapezoidal integration.



Although SciPy retains an alias for compatibility, the preferred name has changed: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/12924


Whats sort of funny about that to my mind is, the original authors were very likely innocent / oblivious in terms of alternative meanings and it's the (quote unquote) dirty minds of the PR/MR fix authors which make them a problem.

"I object to my own urban dictionary / reddit-based post-hoc interpretation of this abbrevation. It's offensive.".

Which is fine. We can fix all the things, and yes it's short term pain but not a big deal. What was said isn't the same as what is heard.

Where there are historically unfortunate names, we can deal with them just like all the other changes we make as a matter of course.


> *, 3/4 of the sample based integrated method names are, or are very close to, popular sexual-ish diminutives or slurs:

That's magical.




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