[PD-dev] Re: Restructuring of CVS/externals

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> Why did algebra switched to a very terse notation during the 16th century,
> and that, for most purposes, scientists and engineers haven't looked back
> much ?
> 
> I mean, why did geometers start to write "a²+b²=h²" instead of writing
> "the square of the length of the adjacent side plus the square of the
> length of the opposed side equals the square of the length of the long
> side" like they used to do ?

I must admit, reading "trigger bang anything bang"  in a patch to my
eyes much looks like "the square of the length of ..." and I really
have problems following such patches as quickly as I can follow the
more common usual [t b a b].

Ciao
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