In <m0scsu....@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>, on 03/12/2012 at 07:00 PM, Albert van der Horst <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> said:
>I know, but what the mathematicians do make so much more sense: Not really; Mathematical notation is a matter of convention, and the conventions owe as much to History as they do to logical necessity. The conventions aren't even the same from author to author, e.g., whether "field" implies Abelian. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> Unsolicited bulk E-mail subject to legal action. I reserve the right to publicly post or ridicule any abusive E-mail. Reply to domain Patriot dot net user shmuel+news to contact me. Do not reply to spamt...@library.lspace.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
