On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:00:09AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : OTOH, you didn't ask how mathematicians would write this; you asked : how they'd read it. As an amateur mathematician (my formal education : includes linear algebra and basic differential equations), I read the : former as "a(x) to the two-factorial power": all unary operators, be : they prefix or postfix, should be evaluated before any binary operator : is.
Could we please get all the mathematicians in the world together to vote on this? :) I also wouldn't mind a straw vote from all the future mathematicians... Larry
