Is this not simply a British English thing? I assumed it was, like "maths", since Nature is a British publication. HN users from the UK, can you confirm? gte is

Is this not simply a British English thing? I assumed it was, like "maths", since Nature is a British publication. HN users from the UK, can you confirm? gte is speaking about constructions in the article like: "As a general rule, researchers do not test or document their programs rigorously, and they rarely release their codes, making it almost impossible to reproduce and verify published results generated by scientific software, say computer scientists." "As recognition of these issues has grown, software experts and scientists have started exploring ways to improve the codes used in science."