On Thursday, 24 September 2015 15:34:46 UTC-7, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
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> On Thursday, 24 September 2015 15:02:39 UTC-7, Volker Braun wrote:
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>> On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 11:18:58 PM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> You are missing the point. Of course Sage contains stuff that are beyond
>> the undergrad syllabus. All I'm saying that you shouldn't abbreviate it,
>> then. E.g. searching for "Generalized Quadrangle" easily finds an
>> explanation for what that is, whereas searching for GQ brings you to the
>> website of the Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine.
>>
>
> the function is documented, and one can easily see what it is about, no
> need to google. In comparison, try googling for ZZ, or for GL.
>
> Signature: graphs.T2starGQGraph(q, dual=False, hyperoval=None,
> field=None, check_hyperoval=True)
> Docstring:
> Return the collinearity graph of the generalized quadrangle
> T_2^*(q), or of its dual
>
> FYI, Mathscinet finds 34 papers with abbreviation GQ in the title; 1
> refers to something else, 33 refer to generalized quadrangles.
>
>
> And by the way, look at the docstring fot LLL:
> Docstring:
> Return LLL reduced or approximated LLL reduced lattice R for this
> matrix interpreted as a lattice.
>
> "matrix interpreted as lattice..." maybe it should be "lettuce" there?
>
> FYI, Mathscinet finds 34 papers with abbreviation LLL in the title.
>
^^^^ 47, sorry for typo.
>
>
> Or even better, look at BKZ method for matrices. I must say I didn't know
> this abbreviation. Anyone does know?
>
> FYI, Mathscinet finds 8 papers with abbreviation BKZ. But only 2 are
> relevant to BKZ for matrices, the rest are about some stuff in
> fluid dynamics known as K-BKZ.
>
>
> Now you seem to be telling me that GQ (33 times mentioned in titles of
> maths papers) is an obscure abbreviation and cannot be used in Sage
> function names, while LLL
> (wow, 20% more times in titles) and BKZ (wow, mentioned 2 times in titles
> of maths papers) are just great to have as it is...
>
>
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> We could have fixed lots of broken docs in Sage, instead of having this
> useless discussion.
>
>
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