Re:Problems of Traditional Math Notation (2004)
by dagw on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @05:42AM
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It is ambiguous because, as you point out, it can be read either as `abs(abs(c)).a.abs(b)` or `abs(abs(c).abs(a).b)`
Except in this case the ambiguity comes from typography rather than notation. ‖c‖a|b| for example is exactly the same statement with different typography and is a lot less ambiguous. The problem here isn't math notation, but trying to apply that notation using only pure ASCII.
Except in this case the ambiguity comes from typography rather than notation. ‖c‖a|b| for example is exactly the same statement with different typography and is a lot less ambiguous. The problem here isn't math notation, but trying to apply that notation using only pure ASCII.