On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:36 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > One thing that surprised me is that I couldn't find any well-known > name for what the * and / operators are doing; digging around on > the net and in some dusty old math textbooks didn't yield any exact > matches. I ended up adding footnotes with the actual computations, > but I'm not very happy with that approach. Surely Lockhart[1] got this > definition from someplace, though, and didn't invent it out of thin air. > > I'd move the footnote indicator to:
Available for point[a], box, path, circle. Available for point[b], box, path, circle. As the footnote only applies to that specific left operand type. Or maybe: Available for box, path, and circle. It is also defined for point [a] but it has no related physical meaning. David J.
