Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 08:31 +1300, Rolf Turner wrote:
> On 20/10/14 01:28, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 01:10 +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
> >> Here's the problem.  Let's say you have a set of data and you want to
> >> characterize it in order to use it as the basis of a model.  In order
> >> to do that, you really need to know the underlying PDF.
> >
> > I assume you mean Probability Distribution Function, not Portable
> > Document Format. That might not be clear to everyone, particularly on a
> > list such as this one.
> 
> Probability *density* function, actually. :-)

It can be either Distribution or Density. Also a few other things (see
Wikipedia). That's the problem with specialist terminology where the
context isn't completely clear, e.g. we all know what ATM is when
talking about a banking network, right? (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). Or
DOS when talking about computers (Denial Of Service). I could go on.

> (All *good* people would understand this! :-) )

Er ...

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