Re: SmartSet
Re: SmartSet
- Subject: Re: SmartSet
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:39:31 -0500
Yeah, I agree. The problem is that we run out of terms in our language but more often, someone creating terms for concepts in one discipline (A) may have no idea at all that another discipline (B) already uses that term.
When the two worlds collide, confusion results, as the person familiar with discipline A thinks about the term from discipline B from the frame of reference of how he learned it in a completely other context.
In any case, harkening back to my former life as a one time math major, we do have access to some nice text options on our Macintoshes that are relevant to Set Theory. The Character Viewer panel allows access to the proper characters to represent the set, you can just display the Character Viewer floating panel and search for Empty Set and you'll get the results in no time.
In case they might be useful to any mathamagicians, here's the empty set character in several fonts an in both accepted representations…
∅
∅
∅
{ }
On Dec 18, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:
> On Dec 18, 2013, at 11:35 AM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
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>> I think you're putting too much of Discrete Math or Discrete Structures into the explanation here and it's not a correct mapping over of concepts.
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>> So, your application of set theory isn't applicable here in the manner that you would expect it to be. For your
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> Which was my point. "Computery" sets and mathematical sets are two very different ideas which have very little in common. Perhaps computery sets should be called something else to avoid any confusion.
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