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For people that want to argue about salesperson vs salesman you may be comforted to know that you don't need to, it's already being done!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Travelling_salesman_probl...




It reminds me of when at some point in the 90s everyone decided to stick it to jesus by changing B.C. to B.C.E.


> In 1856, Rabbi and historian Morris Jacob Raphall used the abbreviations CE and BCE in his book Post-Biblical History of The Jews

Older than you’d think.


That was just them describing random internal wikipedia things with a debate about google scholar. There wasn't really a debate there...


If you search the page for "salesperson" there are other debates.


What of the people wanting to argue about the two different (correct) spellings of 'travelling/traveling' used in this thread?




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