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Static methods or static functions?

I was just reading http://stackoverflow.com/questions/155609/what-is-the-difference-between-a-method-and-a-function and all of a sudden, the thing came to my mind was the static methods. As static ...
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Should I put utility methods inside a class?

I have been working on a library which contains a large set of functions. For the sake of simplicity, I am going to use just one set as an example. I am not sure which is the better way, in terms of ...
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static or non-static, that is the question? [duplicate]

For comparisons / evaluations of objects of the same class(and other purposes), is it better to define a static or a non-static (is this called "dynamic" by chance?) function? Sample code: class ...