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Re: Motion 46: finalise interval literals



On 2013-07-12 11:28:32 -0500, Ralph Baker Kearfott wrote:
> I always thought the "P" in "ULP" stood for "Place."  Although I do not
> have a recording to verify this, I think I've always heard "units in the
> last place" rather than "units in the last position" in speech.

I've seen "unit in the last place" more often than "... position"
but Google results are rather surprising:

"unit in the last place": 375 000 results
"unit in the last position": 2 580 000 results

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