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• 14:29, 14 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Template:Fix (Created page with "<span class="fix {{{classes|}}}" style="white-space:nowrap">{{{change}}}</span>")
• 14:26, 14 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Common.css (Created page with "CSS placed here will be applied to all skins: .fix { color: blue; font-style: italic; }")
• 13:48, 13 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Negating a fraction (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities When negating a fraction written on two lines, just putting a minus sign in front is easy to mistake for a long dividing line: \[ - \frac{x^3 + 3x^2...")
• 13:44, 13 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Space is significant (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Empty space is often significant in mathematical notation, but it's easy to misinterpret, and hard to produce accurately. TeX applies different amou...")
• 13:30, 13 July 2021 Dginev talk contribs created page Whystartatxyz talk:Organisation (some thoughts on organization)
• 09:58, 13 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Whystartatxyz:Organisation (Created page with "==Of pages== At the moment (2021-07-13), there are a few dozen pages, each belonging to one or two out of a handful of categories. I'm keen to identify common themes, but ho...")
• 21:23, 12 July 2021 User account Rynair talk contribs was created
• 17:17, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Commutative diagrams (basic summary of commutative diagram ambiguities)
• 17:05, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Probability theory (Created page with "Probability theory makes a number of pragmatic abuses of notation. There are a lot of symbols, such as the magic function \( P \) (sometimes written \(\mathbb{P}\) or \(\math...")
• 16:31, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Prime symbol in variable names (summarize ambiguities around using prime symbol in variable names)
• 16:21, 12 July 2021 User account Hpecora1 talk contribs was created
• 16:06, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Category:Variable Names (Created page with "Conventions for assigning symbols or other identifiers to variables.")
• 16:01, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page Circumflex to Distinguish Variable Names (Introduce the upright and inverted circumflex convention, with an example.)
• 15:54, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs created page File:Hinze2012 adjunctions circumflex.png
• 15:54, 12 July 2021 Benrbray talk contribs uploaded File:Hinze2012 adjunctions circumflex.png
• 15:11, 12 July 2021 User account Benrbray talk contribs was created
• 15:28, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Needs filling in (Created page with "Pages that might have a link or two or a snippet of an idea, but need filling in.")
• 15:22, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Or (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities The word "or", when used in mathematics, usually means the the relation \(A \vee B\), with the following truth table: {| class="wikitable" |+ Captio...")
• 13:45, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Language (Created page with "This category collects problems to do with mathematical language.")
• 13:42, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Handwriting (Created page with "This category collects things that only or mainly come up in handwritten notation.")
• 13:31, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs moved page Talk:Mod Notation to Talk:Modular equivalence
• 13:31, 11 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs moved page Mod Notation to Modular equivalence
• 14:54, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs moved page Lack of brackets in language to Lack of brackets in spoken language
• 14:29, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Symbols that look identical in certain contexts (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Needs filling in Some pairs of symbols look identical when handwritten, or when rendered in certain fonts. ==Examples== * The Latin le...")
• 14:23, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page File:Three ways of writing x.jpg
• 14:23, 10 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs uploaded File:Three ways of writing x.jpg
• 11:51, 9 July 2021 Dginev talk contribs created page File:F-x-for-brevity.png
• 11:51, 9 July 2021 Dginev talk contribs uploaded File:F-x-for-brevity.png
• 08:32, 8 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Juxtaposition means combine in the obvious way (Created page with "In an expression, putting two things immediately next to each other usually means that they should be combined in some way. It's usually implicit that the combination operatio...")
• 08:22, 8 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Function application without parentheses (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities It's sometimes OK to write a function name followed by its argument, without any parentheses. Because there's There is no function application symb...")
• 20:24, 7 July 2021 John McKenna talk contribs created page Talk:Ways of writing numbers (Created page with "In the Twitter thread: "Have you seen fractional numbers in hex or octal notation?" Literals like 0x1.123abcp-5 are now standard in C and C++. The exponent (following 'p') is...")
• 18:31, 7 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Intervals (Created page with "Category:Local variations Intervals are often written as a pair of numbers between two brackets, with the brackets determining whether the interval is open or closed at e...")
• 14:43, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page ! (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities The ! symbol is used to represent the factorial operation. When a factorial appears inside a sentence, it's possible to misinterpret the ! as an exc...")
• 14:06, 6 July 2021 User account John McKenna talk contribs was created
• 13:50, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Handwritten x (Created page with "Category:Local variations The letter x is often written differently in a mathematical context to prose text, in order to distinguish it from the multiplication symbol, \(...")
• 12:56, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Symbols for names (Created page with "There are many conventions to do with naming things. This page might split into several when it gets big enough. Mathematicians tend to use single Latin letters to name thing...")
• 04:49, 6 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Equality, identity, definition (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/DavidKButlerUoA/status/1412252548833046541?s=19 Twitter thread]</ref>")
• 09:52, 5 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Set notation (Created page with "When defining a set, something is normally put between curly braces. There are a few different conventions for what can go inside: * All the elements of the set, separated by...")
• 14:27, 3 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Local variations (Created page with "This category collects conventions in notation that are particular to a place or group of people.")
• 18:21, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page File:Modexamples.png
• 18:21, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs uploaded File:Modexamples.png
• 18:14, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page Talk:Mod Notation (Alternate Mod Notation)
• 17:15, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page Mod Notation (Mod Notation)
• 16:27, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs created page File:Modmacros.png
• 16:27, 2 July 2021 RJBoland talk contribs uploaded File:Modmacros.png
• 15:38, 2 July 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Factors (Created page with "The factors of 21 are usually 1, 3, 7, and 21, but sometimes factors is used to describe the number 1, 3, 7 (excluding the number itself. The proper factors of 21 might be 1,...")
• 15:34, 2 July 2021 User account RJBoland talk contribs was created
• 15:24, 2 July 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Lack of brackets in language (Created page with "There are problems similar to those related to order of operations misunderstandings causes by the lack of brackets in language. For example, if trying to describe \(3^{2...")
• 15:04, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Quotes (Created page with "<blockquote>Symboles are poor unhandsome (though necessary) scaffolds of demonstration; and ought no more to appear in publique, then the most deformed necessary business whic...")
• 11:47, 2 July 2021 User account SparksMaths talk contribs was created