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Old July 23rd, 2009, 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainBlack View Post
Juice-eppi Pea-no is how I pronounce it, but if I have not heard some else pronounce it it is probably wrong (I don't recall if I have heard it pronounced).

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I've always thought it was pronounced Piano, as in the instrument (I am reading your as Pea-no = Pee-no). Although, much like you, I have no idea if I've heard anyone else pronounce it, and even if I had that is not to say that they were correct. Euler is normally pronounced correctly (and always by lecturers) but, but Basel and Eratosthenes are usually miss-pronounced, and so the same could be true for Peano.
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