there are good reasons (sometimes) for writing functions on-the-right (for example). also for surpressing parens. long live x(f)… if that is, in fact, what its author actually *meant*.
Proposition XIV of Archimedes’s Quadratura Parabolae requires a diagram with 25 labelled points. There being only 24 Greek letters, Archimedes invents a new one, apparently a Delta with a cedilla.
On your point about Catherine, that’s becoming a common thing among open-source computer programming frameworks. Case in point: Nancy (http://nancyfx.org/), a .Net web framework based on another for a different platform called Sinatra.
To be named Pikachu is… 😶
I’d love to know what kind of proof required 40+ different variable names!
However, if your function takes in functions as arguments, then you may give them the name “f”, while the function itself might be called Φ or ψ
My father happens to share his name with a major US corporation.
x(f), lol!
there are good reasons (sometimes) for writing functions on-the-right (for example). also for surpressing parens. long live x(f)… if that is, in fact, what its author actually *meant*.
there is no “r” in “suppressing”. no, wait. there is only *one* “r” in…
what tends to be missed: once you’ve *chosen* a name. stick *with* it! that is all. love, v.
Proposition XIV of Archimedes’s Quadratura Parabolae requires a diagram with 25 labelled points. There being only 24 Greek letters, Archimedes invents a new one, apparently a Delta with a cedilla.
On your point about Catherine, that’s becoming a common thing among open-source computer programming frameworks. Case in point: Nancy (http://nancyfx.org/), a .Net web framework based on another for a different platform called Sinatra.
how bout cyrillic? or japanese kana? arabic abgad? devanagari? or the best one, chinese characters.