Where is this "mathematical standard-notation" defined?
Of course this is a facetious question - it isn't defined anywhere: there is no such thing. J attempts to make mathematical notation consistent (and linear). As Albert Einstein is reputed to have said: Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Similarly, mathematical standards are whatever an individual may have picked up from the hodge-podge of inconsistent conventions with which he has become familiar by a certain age. And of course, in J, you can do as many have done and assign names to the trig functions or simply load '~system\main\trig.ijs' which has definitions like cos=: 2&o. already done for you. Of course, you may have a different "standard" name for, say, the arctangent function. Common ones in use are "atan", "tan-1", and "arctan". On 2/26/07, vincent 1000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...
The ideal would be a J which uses mathematical standard-notation wherever possible? What´s the use of inventing custom names for absolutely standard common trigonometric functions??????
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