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- 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...")
- 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...")
- 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.")
- 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...")
- 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.")