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In the above correspondence,' the alThe terms "datum processing," "digital After all, the Germans have such words as gorithm used is conceptually identical to the datum transmission," and "automaton "buistenhalter," where "btisten" is the plural algorithm described in Firschein and Fischtheory" may seem awkward to persons who of "buiste." ler.2'3 are accustomed to the more common "data 12 Al Ave. 0. FIRSCHEIN processing," "digital data transmission," 1821 Allen Ave. M. A. FISCHLER and "automata theory" (this last term being Ames, Iowa Lockheed Palo Alto Research Lab. used, for example, in Part A of the Reviews Palo Alto, Calif. Section of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS), but would not the singular forms really be more appropriate? A uthors' Reply4 In the English language the nearly uni-