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This is the name of the city today, but this has not always been the case. In the past, Leuven was a bilingual city, and to many of the people who lived there, the city was known as Louvain.

Back then, a large proportion of Flemish intellectuals (including my grandparents) were French-speaking, which is a reason why there were so many French students and professors in Leuven/Louvain. Therefore I think that, in the context of the article, the "wrongness" of calling the city Louvain is not as clear-cut as you suggest.

The basic Buddhist teachings and practices even for lay people cover this vast domain concisely

Not so concisely I would say. What source are you refering to here? Because the Pali Cannon is very long…

Why don't you stick to the energy growth rate (instead of the 4.72% velocity growth rate) and then use the relativistic formula of the kinetic energy (in which the relationship between energy and velocity is not quadratic — the quadratic approximation is valid only for small velocities)?

GNU Guix 1.0 7 years ago

I also prefer guix's documentation. `info guix` is a very good resource. :)