Notatio, notationis
I'm working on a mathematical paper (instead of writing Selenium for my class, actually). It involves generating new, unambiguous notations, particularly summations and brackets.
Doesn't it make way more sense to say that (x,y) is an ordered pair, :(x,y): is a gcd, *(x,y)* is an open interval, and <|x,y|> is an ideal, rather than (x,y) being all of these?
Doesn't it make more sense to use (you see a sigma... a normal-sized, twelve-point font sigma) S_i (x_i y_*i) when you're talking about summing x and y over the index i rather than x_i y^i (yes that's a superscript in the usual notation)?
Something must be done, and I plan to do it. Hence I'm writing an article in LaTeX and I'm gonna submit it to a math-teaching journal.
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