On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 05:35:37 +0000, David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > > Was there a good reason for choosing the name 'sgn'? It sems a bit > strange to me. >
That's the standard mathematical notation for this function, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_function Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org