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In college chemistry the text book was discussing where atomic number (or weight?) went in the symbol, and this Latin expression was in a footnote. I loved it, a chem textbook write with a sense of whimsy!

I've often heard a close translation is "There's no accounting for taste".

Vern

On 10/28/2020 1:49 PM, Jack Woehr wrote:

*De gustibus non disputandum est* as the Romans used to say at the
Hackathonus :)


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