Re: First report on Conm

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:
>
> >
> > Is there a standard way of doing that? We've been told to do f^(9)
> > (differentiated from f^9 by naught but brackets), because f'''' is
> > already ridiculous enough....
> >
>
> f^(9) *is* the standard way to do it. I was also taught that way.
> Andreas's
> teacher's "f^IX", though not unknown is pretty much non-standard (and
> not very
> practical anyway. I can't see in what way f^III is an improvement over
> f''' ;)))) ). I've occasionally seen it, but among people that
> regularly
> underline vectors even in print, instead of writing them in bold
> letters! :))
There are people who'd actually differentiate (when writting by hand) between
f''' and f^III ? And _underlining_ vectors? Here, they got a macron-like thing
_above_ in handwriting. I'd probably take an underlined thing to indicate a
tensor, since that's the convention used by my mechanics teacher.

                                                       Andreas

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