William wrote

> I would be happy to introduce a short-cut alias for numerical_approx,
> e.g., N() or n() or ??.
>...
> Something simple like a.N() might be quite reasonable as a shortcut
> for a.numerical_approx(), and would be very simple to implement (just
> one line of code in an appropriate place).
>
> Thoughts?

I can not think of a better shortcut for numerical_approx() than
either N() or n() and between these two, I have found that I type n()
quicker than N().  Also, since numerical_approx() begins with a lower
case letter, I like the idea that its shortcut also begins with a
lower case letter.  Therefore, I would vote for using n() as the
shortcut.

As for usability, I have found that both of these shortcut methods are
much quicker to type and erase than numerical_approx() and their
usability is very similar to mathematica's //N shortcut.

Ted

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