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Mathematicians understand how to read definitions of notation. If all of your trig is fractions of pi, writing pi redundantly everywhere is not useful.
by gowld 6y ago
Mathematicians understand how to read definitions of notation.
If all of your trig is fractions of pi, writing pi redundantly everywhere is not useful.
- wcarey 6y agoIs that commonly done?
- renewiltord 6y agoIt is not. Though it wouldn't be too hard to adapt, I think, if it was noted at the beginning of a text. For it to take, it would have to power some influential result, sort of like how the summation convention in tensor notation works (something that infuriated me as a kid).
- saagarjha 6y ago…but that's not a fraction of pi?
- gowld 6y ago30pi is a fraction of pi.