A Google Scholar search for "MDA904 nsa" turns up 1020 hits, many of which include phrases like
"NSA grant MDA904-97-C-3055" or
"NSA contract MDA904-01-C-0926",
the latter of which is from a paper titled "Implementing SELinux as a Linux Security Module". The funding is not covert.
In one-dimensional space, volume is called length. In two-dimensional space, it's called area. In dimensions higher than three, it's still called volume. IANA geometer, but the mathematicians I know wouldn't hesitate to use the word volume for two-dimensional area. In common English, the word area often refers to what mathematicians might call a region. A region is a collection of points, while the volume of a region is just a number. So the word volume can be used for disambiguation.
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A Google Scholar search for "MDA904 nsa" turns up 1020 hits, many of which include phrases like "NSA grant MDA904-97-C-3055" or "NSA contract MDA904-01-C-0926", the latter of which is from a paper titled "Implementing SELinux as a Linux Security Module". The funding is not covert.
More evidence that Donald Knuth http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.ht ml was made a little more in God's image than the rest of us.
In one-dimensional space, volume is called length. In two-dimensional space, it's called area. In dimensions higher than three, it's still called volume. IANA geometer, but the mathematicians I know wouldn't hesitate to use the word volume for two-dimensional area. In common English, the word area often refers to what mathematicians might call a region. A region is a collection of points, while the volume of a region is just a number. So the word volume can be used for disambiguation.