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Re: Double Prime?

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, March 30, 2003, 8:54
Sarah Marie Parker-Allen scripsit:

> I spoke to the person who first dubbed me "Sarah Double Prime" a while back, > and indicated to her the concern raised on this list about the correctness > of this title. She reminded me that she was a math major and sent me this > link... (apparently I'm a derivative Sarah ^_^) > > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DoublePrime.html
I yield to nobody in my admiration for Eric Weisstein's magnissimum opus, and undoubtedly the overwhelming majority of anglophone mathematicians say "double prime", but that it doesn't make it any the less Bad and Wrong. So there. :-)
> To keep this slightly on topic, has anyone here been brave enough to come up > with new mathemtical terminology and models for their conlang?
Lojban has a large mathematical subset, with ways to speak both ordinary math notation and Reverse Polish while retaining all (or more than all) the unambiguity of written mathematics. li re du li vei re su'i re ve'o te'a pimu the-number 2 = the-number ( 2 + 2 ) to-the-power .5 li re du li fu'a re boi re su'i pimu te'a the-number 2 = the-number [RPN] 2 [push] 2 + .5 to-the-power -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --_The Hobbit_

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