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Collection of Quotes on Notation Design
- _Microft 5y agoMight be worth to point to Terry Tao‘s post on MathOverflow about notation, as it seems to be missing in this collection. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366070/what-are-the-benefits-of-writing-vector-inner-products-as-langle-u-v-rangle/366118#366118 https://mathoverflow.net/questions/366070/what-are-the-benef... It was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911903
- arthurjj 5y agoI really appreciate the existence of different notations and wish they were more widely talked about. For example I spent a few months developing a notation for recurring timeslots before learning of RFC-5545[1]. Now whenever I'm in a new domain I wonder what notation already exists that I can leverage [1] https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-8-5-3-recurrence-rule.html https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-8-5-3-recurrence-...