Re:Mathematicians should stop naming things after each other
by dragonwriter on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:37PM
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> in Computer Science we have things like: "Quick Sort", "Merge Sort", "Map", "Hashtable", "LRU", etc... etc...
And in quicksort, we have Hoare’s and Lomuto’s partition schemes. Not that “quicksort” is actually particularly descriptive.
We also have Timsort.
> Even the name "Boolean", could be changed to "Conditional"... and be even more readable
Booleans aren't conditionals, conditionals in crisp binary (or, as it is commonly known, “Boolean”) logic operate on booleans (conditionals in fuzzy or nonbinary crisp logics do not.)
And in quicksort, we have Hoare’s and Lomuto’s partition schemes. Not that “quicksort” is actually particularly descriptive.
We also have Timsort.
> Even the name "Boolean", could be changed to "Conditional"... and be even more readable
Booleans aren't conditionals, conditionals in crisp binary (or, as it is commonly known, “Boolean”) logic operate on booleans (conditionals in fuzzy or nonbinary crisp logics do not.)