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I think either is ok depending on your intention: codes is to suggest the stuff is plural, countable etc, e.g. you have a Bash script, Makefile and Java project (full of files), this is a set of heterogeneous countable things, hence codes. Code is a "mass noun" implying countability or cardinality is irrelevant, e.g. push the code to github.

That said I always remarked Indians says "maths" where I would say "math", and I figured there must be some cross-language transfer going on from Hindi or other languages which use plural for intellectual property </wild guess>



The full name of the subject is "mathematics"; a plural. "Maths" is a logical shortening of it. "Math" is actually weird.


Indian English has “maths” because it is closely related to British English, which also uses “maths”.


UK English also uses plural for maths.




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