Math Symbol Frequencies

Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by VonTum on Saturday June 07, 2025 @07:01PM (#44213266)

I had a bit of a chuckle that apparently 5 out of 50000 opening "(" parentheses weren't closed, but then I saw that 2 out of 12000 "]" brackets weren't opened! What criminal is using these standalone?

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by rphln on Saturday June 07, 2025 @07:23PM (#44213364)

Mixing them should be relatively common when denoting intervals, as in "(a, b]" or "[a, b)", so that'd be one cause for being unbalanced. But even so, the math on their usage still doesn't add up.

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by orlp on Saturday June 07, 2025 @08:05PM (#44213544)

You won't like bra-ket notation then :)

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by gfaure on Saturday June 07, 2025 @07:31PM (#44213392)

There is the normal notation for half-open ranges, which would lead to unbalanced brackets.

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by smcin on Sunday June 08, 2025 @03:29AM (#44215297)

Ah. Good point.

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by xelxebar on Saturday June 07, 2025 @11:03PM (#44214260)

Probably not this, but J uses lonely brackets and braces as standalone operators: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc.

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by devrandoom on Saturday June 07, 2025 @11:42PM (#44214402)

I hope you irony of your comment isn't lost.

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by ivan_ah on Monday June 09, 2025 @02:11PM (#44227354)

Hahahah... Yes, contributing to the frequency tables. At least we're not including the symbols in question in our comments, so as not add to the imbalance!

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Re:Math Symbol Frequencies by jxjnskkzxxhx on Sunday June 08, 2025 @09:25AM (#44216863)

I mean.... You just used those standalone.

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