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overloading variables is nothing new in math/science/engineering. Usual methods include picking a different variable to represent torsion, or appending a subsci
by joshAg 14y ago
overloading variables is nothing new in math/science/engineering. Usual methods include picking a different variable to represent torsion, or appending a subscipt or superscript of some kind to differentiate between the two taus. you could also use a bar (like hbar and h in physics) or an apostrophe.
- jmharvey 14y agoIn macroeconomics, pi is commonly used to represent the rate of inflation. And, as in many fields, i is used as an iterator. Which means that in your math, if you're assuming constant inflation, you need to deflate prices in year i by a factor of e^(i*pi).
- joshAg 14y agobeautiful, just beautiful.
- Daniel_Newby 14y agoAPOSTROPHE MEANS DERIVATIVE!!!!1!!!11!!! The tau deal breaker for me is EE sinewaves, where the equation naturally uses pi, and tau is conventionally used to parameterize the function.
- JadeNB 14y ago> APOSTROPHE MEANS DERIVATIVE!!!!1!!!11!!! Prime means derivative; fʹ is the derivative of f, whereas either of f' or f’ is an abomination. (TeX permits the former abomination by, essentially, translating f' into f^\prime.)
- Daniel_Newby 14y agoI stand corrected. Perhaps we should pick a different compromise, say, tau with Unicode combining ring above: τ̊. Edit: On Mac. Trying to do that on a Kindle Fire was ... unproductive.
- dllthomas 14y agoIf we're going to be decorating the tau anyway, let's do it from the outset so I don't have to figure out which tau they chose to decorate in this book/paper/whatever.