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Meanwhile: Mathematica 10.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) Copyright 1988-2014 Wolfram Research, Inc. In[1]:= FullForm[x->y*z^w] Out[1]//FullForm=
by brandonbloom 11y ago
Meanwhile:
Mathematica 10.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit)
Copyright 1988-2014 Wolfram Research, Inc.
In[1]:= FullForm[x->y*z^w]
Out[1]//FullForm= Rule[x, Times[y, Power[z, w]]]
In[2]:= x\[UnionPlus]y\[RightTee]z
Out[2]= x ⊎ y ⊢ z
There's no reason your programming language shouldn't be able to tell you what these things are called in English without an external reference.
- Skywing 11y agoOr is there? queue x-files theme song
- eru 11y agoSome operators are so abstract that they don't really have a good name. Eg if you are talking about groups in general, how do you pronounce the group operation ∘? At uni, we usually just called it Kringel.
- brandonbloom 11y agoThe name can be arbitrary, as long as it's unambiguous. By the way, here's what mathematica says when I copy paste that and enter x∘y: SmallCircle[x,y] Also fun: In[3]:= SpokenString[x\[SmallCircle]y] Out[3]= "SmallCircle of x and y" Which can be turned in to sound: Speak[x\[SmallCircle]y]
- eru 11y agoActually, it's not even unambiguous. In some sense, it's like an unbounded variable.