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I'm enjoying the Probability for Everyone post. I'm also quickly reminded how complex the notion used in Probability Theory is. Lowercase, uppercase, script upp
by syphilis2 9y ago
I'm enjoying the Probability for Everyone post. I'm also quickly reminded how complex the notion used in Probability Theory is. Lowercase, uppercase, script uppercase, double struck uppercase, and Greek uppercase all have specific meanings (sometimes multiple meaning), and they get held together with the set theory symbols. It's even worse since some people use different characters for inconsequential things, and then there's situations (online forums) where the notation can't be used and substitutes are made, I even recall some books using bold letters which made note taking a real hassle.
- stablemap 9y agoI think any field having so many consumers will struggle to standardize notation, but for boldface I can offer this—it’s typically one more stroke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold
- T_D_K 9y agoWell, all of that is really just Hungarian Notation [0] with typesetting rather than extra characters, so it's not 100% necessary to fully understand -- just look at the definition again. The exception is standard sets, like the Reals or Natural Numbers etc. (which use the double strike through). But that's pretty standardized. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation