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Darren New wrote:
> Which just goes to show the problem I have with 90% of all matehmatical
> notation. It's so utterly inconsistent that even something like
> (f(f(x))) is ambiguous.
Several millennia of mathematical discoveries, all made by different
people in different places, and apparently several of them discovered
the same or similar things, but gave them different names - or gave them
names which clash with existing but inrelated things they didn't know about.
Just for giggles: how many meanings can you find for "normal"?
There's the normal distribution, normal vectors, a normed space...
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