Timeline for How can I use parentheses when there are math parentheses inside?
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| Jul 22, 2022 at 3:50 | comment | added | Dawood ibn Kareem | I'm with @David on this one. Your question says "I said A, but I meant B, what should I do" - and the answer is "say B". | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 6:45 | comment | added | David | If the second way of saying it is what you mean, why not just write it that way in the first place? | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 12:58 | answer | added | Chris H | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 11:54 | answer | added | Clément | timeline score: 23 | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 10:25 | comment | added | Louic | Some people believe that parentheses should never be used: If the text is important it should not be between parentheses, if it is not it should be left out. | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 8:02 | answer | added | Deipatrous | timeline score: 6 | |
| S Jul 20, 2022 at 1:43 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Copy edited (e.g. ref. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parentheses#Noun>) - presuming plural. Fixed the question formation - missing auxiliary (or helping) verb - see e.g. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4yWEt0OSpg&t=1m49s> (QUASM) - alternatively, drop the question mark.
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 21:01 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1549454041826181120 | ||
| Jul 19, 2022 at 16:06 | comment | added | Dan Romik | Tangentially to the issue of the parentheses, the wording “has functions defined on it” is vague and nonstandard. It makes it hard to discern whether the sentence is a definition or a claim, and makes me wonder whether those are all the functions that the space has, or can there be other ones. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 15:34 | vote | accept | wooohooo | ||
| Jul 19, 2022 at 15:33 | comment | added | wooohooo | This is from a draft that I am writing with others so it would not be easy to get consent to share it here. Sorry for the poor choice of wording and lack of context. However, I do believe it's understandable that these situations do arise for new authors like me. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 13:09 | comment | added | User123456789 | Why not just use words? "The spaces $O(X)$ and $O(Y)$ have the functions $g(x)-f(x)$ and $g(x)-f(x)$ defined on them, respectively." | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 12:50 | comment | added | Jon Custer | It is particularly hard to see the point here since $O(whatever)$ refers both times to $g(x)-f(x)$? Is that the intent? | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 9:32 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 19, 2022 at 8:14 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 8:11 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | Also: Your particular definition is weird, as the second pair of alternatives is identical and none of the functions seem to be related to X or Y. Even if I ignore the last part, the symbol O is overloaded, such that I don’t think it is clear to the reader what O(Z) would be. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 8:08 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | Question on Writing SE as to whether such an expression is a good idea (featuring a detailed elaboration by me why it never is): Is elaborating the opposite case in brackets acceptable and clear? | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 2:21 | answer | added | Wolfgang Bangerth | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 2:15 | history | edited | Buzz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2022 at 2:15 | answer | added | Buzz | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 2:11 | comment | added | Ethan Bolker | Your sentence makes no sense to me. If you include the context (perhaps a paragraph) in which it appears we might be able to suggest wording. This question might be better asked on math.stackexchange. If you post there, delete here. | |
| Jul 19, 2022 at 1:31 | history | asked | wooohooo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |