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The singular of data would be a 1, to be pedantic. Edit: Information is uncountable, so maybe data should as well be. Is that plural or singular? Yes, you can
by conceit 11y ago
The singular of data would be a 1, to be pedantic.
Edit: Information is uncountable, so maybe data should as well be. Is that plural or singular? Yes, you can have sand and a grain of sand, but the grain is hardly sandy. A lone 1 is hardly, excuse the pun, dative.
- znpy 11y ago'data' comes from latin, and 'data' is plura. the singular is 'datum'. In Italian (the direct descendent of latin) there is both singular and plural for datum (singular: 'dato', plural: 'dati')
- conceit 11y agothat's totally ignoring what I said. I hope you feel smug about it. Edit: Interestingly, wiktionary says informations is just uncommon, and that information is not data, it's the meaning of data, in the computing context. ... with source. It links to a paper about an ISO standard, no less, that tries to define vocabulary and happens to use data as singular. Document Reader [is a] Character reader whose input data is the text from specific areas on a given type of form [1]. (This makes me so happy right now.) Overall, if it's a technical term they invented, the authors are free to name their language construct whatever they want. But if it's so fudged that the author even writes datums ... I rest my case. [1] https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:2382:ed-1:v1:en https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso-iec:2382:ed-1:v1:en