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- 13:28, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Natural numbers (Created page with "The set of natural numbers, usually written \(\mathbb{N}\), sometimes includes 0 and sometimes doesn't include 0. Category:Inconsistencies")
- 13:26, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Matrix indices (Created page with "It's common to write the entries of a matrix \(A\) as \(a_{ij}\) without a comma: \(A = \left(\begin{array}{cccc} a_{11}&a_{12}&\dots&a_{1n}\\ a_{21}&a_{22}&\dots&a_{nn}\\ \v...")
- 13:14, 30 June 2021 User account Mscroggs talk contribs was created
- 13:08, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page File:Xi bar over Xi .jpg
- 13:08, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs uploaded File:Xi bar over Xi .jpg
- 12:52, 30 June 2021 ColinBeveridge talk contribs created page Mixed fractions (Created page with "Category:Inconsistencies Adjacency means different things depending on the context: * \( 2x \) means \( 2 \times x\). * \( 2 \frac{2}{3} \) means \( 2 + \frac{2}{3}\)....")
- 12:40, 30 June 2021 ColinBeveridge talk contribs created page Stacked fractions (Created page with "A fraction written on multiple levels is often ambiguous, especially when handwritten. For example, \(\frac{10}{\frac{2}{5}}\) and \(\frac{\frac{10}{2}}{5}\) result in 25 and...")
- 12:09, 30 June 2021 User account ColinBeveridge talk contribs was created
- 11:59, 30 June 2021 User account Csangwin talk contribs was created
- 10:47, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Unpleasantness (Created page with "This category collects conventions that offend someone's sensibilities.")
- 10:40, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page References (Created page with "[http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/cajorinot.pdf A History of Mathematical Notations] by Florian Cajori. Jeff Miller maintains some pages on the earliest known uses of [h...")
- 10:39, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Use of different typefaces to convey meaning (Created page with "Category:Unpleasantness Mathematicians love using a different font, or style, to get a semantically different symbol, instead of using diacritics or a different letter en...")
- 10:30, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page User:Christian Lawson-Perfect (Created page with "I'm the creator of this site! For more about me, see my homepage: [https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/ somethingorotherwhatever.com]")
- 10:24, 30 June 2021 User account Tester talk contribs was created
- 10:21, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Powers of trigonometric functions (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Inconsistencies Category:Unpleasantness When writing a power of a trigonometric function, it's common to write the power as a supers...")
- 10:05, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Ambiguities (Created page with "This category collects notations which can be reasonably interpreted in more than one way.")
- 10:03, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Inconsistencies (Created page with "This category collects conventions in notation that are inconsistent with each other.")
- 10:01, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Unary division (Created page with "[[Category::Inconsistencies]] A minus sign with nothing on the left represents negation of whatever's on the right. Why isn't there a unary division symbol? \[ \div x = \fr...")
- 09:57, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Order of operations (Created page with "There are quite a few mnemonics for the order of operations. A common one in the UK is BODMAS: * Brackets * Orders * Division * Multiplication * Addition * Subtraction Elsew...")
- 09:54, 30 June 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Missing multiplication symbol (Created page with "It's common to omit a multiplication symbol: \(ab = a \times b\) But sometimes it's not as clear: \( a(b+1) = a \times (b+1) ? \)")
- 09:26, 30 June 2021 MediaWiki default talk contribs created page Main Page
