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Re: vfprintf typing problem
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> On 04/02/2012 10:31 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> I've never seen that in any mathematical literature.
>
> I see it all the time. Picking a source somewhat at random:
>
> "Let us fix a family (Ï[j]) jâ=â1,...,âp such that
> Ï[j] â D(V[j]), 0 â Ï[j] â 1, â Ï[j] â 1 on M."
>
> -- Tartakoff DS. Nonelliptic Partial Differential Equations.
> Developments in Mathematics, 2011, Volume 22, 159-189,
> <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9813-2_13>
>
> It's natural to translate commonly used mathematical notation like
> "0 â i < 1000" to "0 <= i && i < 1000" in C.
That is a completely different case. You will never see 0 < Î.
Andreas.
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