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Yes, it's very much this. There is so much established convention and if you don't know that convention, then it involves a non-trivial amount of time to work
by imron 10y ago
Yes, it's very much this. There is so much established convention and if you don't know that convention, then it involves a non-trivial amount of time to work through it and figure it out.
- Xcelerate 10y agoI remember the first time I saw \mathbb{R}^n. I thought "What the heck does that mean?!" I wish more time had been utilized in high school to explain all of the notation that I would need to know later on. It's difficult to Google symbols. (More recently, I spent a few hours trying to figure what a box with a times symbol in it means — in the context of the paper I was reading, it turned out to be the outer tensor product of linear group representations. Who would have guessed that?)
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoFWIW, crosses inside something is standard notation for exterior products. And, how do you introduce that in high school? Would you be able to wrap your head around the generic concept of exterior products back then?