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- 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
- 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...")
- 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