On Thursday, 24 September 2015 14:18:58 UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > > > On Thursday, 24 September 2015 13:28:45 UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 8:08:36 PM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> >>> We have dozens of examples in Sage where well-established abbreviations >>> are used, without aliases. >>> E.g. matrices have LU() and LLL() methods, or e.g. groups.matrix.GL >>> groups.matrix.GO groups.matrix.GU >>> >> >> IMHO abbreviations are OK when they are known to basically every >> mathematician, e.g. ZZ. Which translates to about undergrad level. Just ask >> a undergraduate student what a T2starGQ graph is and you'll have your >> answer. >> > > Huh? Ask an undergraduate what a T2starGeneralizedQuadrangle graph is. > Result will be the same. >
By the way, neither ZZ nor QQ are well-established for outsiders of computer algebra. I'd expect more people knowing about the meaning of GL or SL than of QQ or ZZ. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
