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  • treadful@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    You’ll probably hate this, but my relevant take: “data” can be singular and using it as plural sounds wrong.

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      3 days ago

      So datum would be a singular piece of data. But it gets confusing and varies based on what you’re talking about. If you have a database filled with n files, each having m ints, then you can say that each of these files is a datum of that database, but at the same time, each of these datum is data; with each of the ints being datum. But then each of the ints had multiple bits, so the ints themselves are data. So it depends which level you’re talking about.

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        3 days ago

        The only datum I can think of is tidal datum, used in shoreline measurements. I’ve seen the plural given as datums though… argh!

    • AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 days ago

      Ohh, that one gets me. If it’s e.g. a single USB stick or a piece of paper it’s a medium, not a media. And if you have a bunch of data, a single piece of it should be a datum as well, imo. There’s more (latin based) words like that that I can’t think of right now that do this.