2010/1/3 Alex Ghitza <aghi...@gmail.com>:
> 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

Thank you. I was not aware of that - but as you probably gather, I did
not study maths,

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