Dear all, dear Samuel,
Many thanks for your gallery For me the better d > Message du 31/10/19 00:16 > De : "Samuel Gougeon" > A : users@lists.scilab.org > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [Scilab-users] CLR design component is not clear in scilab 6.0.2 > x64 W10 > > Le 30/10/2019 à 23:25, Federico Miyara a écrit : > > Samuel, > > In another e-mail that for some reason was not sent (and was completely > deleted...) I mentioned this page > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols and standard ISO > 80000-2, which in its clause 9, item 2.9.5 > I have well received it, but in private, and ending with this reference, that > is not public (to buy) > (not sure that i can access to it from my University. Will try later). > > says that symbol for multiplication is either · or ×, and that they can be omitted if no misunderstanding is possible, and presents two examples of omission, one with space, such as a b, and one without space, such as ab (I suppose this is when one has been already using a and b or they are immediately explained). > > > > Thanks for this explicitness. > > I like the space more, it is more general and the only situation where it > would be ambiguous is between numbers, such as 1.234 58 (since the thousand > separator is a short space according to the ISO-BIPM GUM), but between > numbers × is customary. > > It would be very hard (and easily prone to errors, due to many specific > cases, using parentheses, etc) to parse the input to detect all possible > cases (1-char symbols, multiple-char symbols, literal numbers with or without > exponential notations, real or complex, etc) and adapt the multiplication > symbol accordingly. > > We might even define a "Ts.s=2" structure field in the context, and use it in > the input. It works. > ;-) > > A final possible gallery: > > > > > > > Regards > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@lists.scilab.org http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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