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Collection of Quotes on Notation Design

40 pointsby zzqabout 4 years ago

2 comments

_Microftabout 4 years ago
Might be worth to point to Terry Tao‘s post on MathOverflow about notation, as it seems to be missing in this collection.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathoverflow.net&#x2F;questions&#x2F;366070&#x2F;what-are-the-benefits-of-writing-vector-inner-products-as-langle-u-v-rangle&#x2F;366118#366118" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mathoverflow.net&#x2F;questions&#x2F;366070&#x2F;what-are-the-benef...</a><p>It was discussed here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23911903" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23911903</a>
arthurjjabout 4 years ago
I really appreciate the existence of different notations and wish they were more widely talked about. For example I spent a few months developing a notation for recurring timeslots before learning of RFC-5545[1]. Now whenever I&#x27;m in a new domain I wonder what notation already exists that I can leverage<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icalendar.org&#x2F;iCalendar-RFC-5545&#x2F;3-8-5-3-recurrence-rule.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icalendar.org&#x2F;iCalendar-RFC-5545&#x2F;3-8-5-3-recurrence-...</a>