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Symmetric is also good but it has a very distinct geometric interpretation. If we can avoid overloading terminology in a confusing way when designing these the
by ganzuul 6y ago
Symmetric is also good but it has a very distinct geometric interpretation. If we can avoid overloading terminology in a confusing way when designing these the names we should do so.
Perhaps pair-independent is a distinctive name for associative...
- Someone 6y agoWell, introducing the new term “Abelian” certainly avoids overloading terminology in a confusing way :-) “Pair invariant” IMO, isn’t good, certainly worse than “Pairing invariant”. “Parentheses invariant” might work, but of course would get just as confusing/incorrect as “pair invariant” once one moves from groups to fields.
- ganzuul 6y ago"Associative" doesn't provide any information to avoid confusion when dealing with mixed operators either. Somehow including "peer" in the terminology could help.