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- 10:08, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page What is a fraction (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1326847522539769856 Twitter thread by Christian Lawson-Perfect]</ref>")
- 10:06, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Chaining operators and relations (Created page with "Category:Inconsistencies <ref>[https://twitter.com/ZenoRogue/status/798923050842324992 Tweet by ZenoRogue]</ref>")
- 10:00, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Ways of writing numbers (Created page with "<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/1240294851641516036 Thread started by Christian Lawson-Perfect: " want as many different conventions for writing numbers as you can...")
- 09:45, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Parentheses are overused (Created page with "Category:Conflicting definitions Parentheses are used to represent all sorts of operations and objects, many of which conflict with each other. Greatest common divisor:...")
- 08:56, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Something on the right of a radical (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Handwriting A square root is often shown with a radical symbol: \( \sqrt{x} \). The top line is drawn as wide as it needs to be to cover...")
- 08:51, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Long variable names (Created page with "Mathematicians normally stick to single-letter variable names. But when they don't, it can be hard to tell if there's a missing multiplication symbol or not. Some people...")
- 08:35, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:References (Created page with "This category collects pages that contain references to good places to find material for the wiki.")
- 09:31, 1 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Category:Conflicting definitions (Created page with "This category is for definitions of terms or mathematical objects that don't have a single universally recognised meaning.")
- 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
- 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]")
- 10:21, 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: \( a(b+1) = a \times (b+1) ? \)")
