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• 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
• 11:11, 2 July 2021 User account Akura talk contribs was created
• 10:25, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Times smaller and bigger (Created page with "Category:Ambiguities Category:Language Does "\(x\) is 5 times smaller than \(y\)" mean \(x = y/5\)? Does "\(x\) is one time smaller than \(y\)" make sense? Does "\(...")
• 10:17, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page There is no function application symbol (Created page with "While \(\circ\) is often used to represent ''composition'' of functions, it doesn't appear that anyone has invented a symbol for ''application'' of functions. Such a symbol c...")
• 10:09, 2 July 2021 Christian Lawson-Perfect talk contribs created page Combinations (Created page with "Is it \(_nC_r\) or \(^nC_r\)?<ref>[https://twitter.com/christianp/status/335024096947617793 Tweet by Christian Lawson-Perfect]</ref>")
• 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.")
• 23:36, 30 June 2021 Edgartj talk contribs created page Modulus (Created page with "The word '''modulus''' is used in different areas of mathematics with no apparent reason for the name or naming convention connection (that I can tell). For instance, in eleme...")
• 23:26, 30 June 2021 User account Edgartj talk contribs was created
• 19:56, 30 June 2021 Dginev talk contribs created page MathML Intent (offer MathML Intent draft list as a seed for curating/editorializing ambiguity pages)
• 19:45, 30 June 2021 User account Dginev talk contribs was created
• 18:02, 30 June 2021 David Eppstein talk contribs created page Big O notation (New article)
• 17:43, 30 June 2021 User account David Eppstein talk contribs was created
• 17:18, 30 June 2021 Adam Atkinson talk contribs created page Positive-and-Negative (Created page with "Category:Inconsistencies In many countries, 0 is neither positive nor negative. In France, it is both.")
• 17:13, 30 June 2021 Adam Atkinson talk contribs created page Division (Created page with "In some countries, the symbol you don't use for division if you're over about 13 years old is ":". In others, the symbol you don't use for division if you're over about 13 yea...")
• 16:47, 30 June 2021 Adam Atkinson talk contribs created page Whole numbers (Created page with ""Whole numbers" are often referred to without being defined, since many people think everyone knows what they are. However, there are at least three things people mean by the...")
• 16:33, 30 June 2021 User account Adam Atkinson talk contribs was created
• 14:37, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page File talk:Xi bar over Xi .jpg (Created page with "This, or some variation of it, should be this wiki's logo - ~~~~")
• 14:12, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Template talk:Userbox (Created page with "Looks like [ParserFunctions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions] needs to be installed for stuff like this to work. Until then it looks like the one on ...")
• 14:11, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page User:Mscroggs (Created page with "{{Userbox|name=Matthew Scroggs|twitter=mscroggs|website=[https://mscroggs.co.uk <span style='color:#2EA3D0'>mscroggs</span><span style='color:#FFA366'>.co.uk</span>]}} Hello...")
• 14:09, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Template:Userbox (Created page with "<includeonly>{| style="float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 269px; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size: 95%;padding: 5px;" |- style="text-align:cent...")
• 14:09, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page Template:InfoboxAddrow (Created page with "|- | style="font-weight: bold" | {{{rowlabel}}} |")
• 13:33, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page LaTeX (Redirected page to LaTeΧ) Tag: New redirect
• 13:32, 30 June 2021 Mscroggs talk contribs created page LaTeΧ (Created page with "The widely used mathematical typesetting language LaTeΧ is written using a capital Greek letter chi as its final letter. In many typefaces, this is indistinguishable from a c...")