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DOC: inconsistent terminology at scipy.interpolate.griddata.html #19363

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keithbriggs opened this issue Oct 9, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #19611
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DOC: inconsistent terminology at scipy.interpolate.griddata.html #19363

keithbriggs opened this issue Oct 9, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #19611
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Issue with current documentation:

This page has:

LinearNDInterpolator
    Piecewise linear interpolant in N dimensions.
NearestNDInterpolator
    Nearest-neighbor interpolation in N dimensions.

That's three different words for the same thing - interpolator, interpolant, interpolation. This will confuse beginners. If the the functions are called interpolators, why can't we just stick to this word in the descriptions?

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@keithbriggs keithbriggs added the Documentation Issues related to the SciPy documentation. Also check https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org label Oct 9, 2023
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ev-br commented Oct 9, 2023

DOC clarification PRs are welcome

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