Timeline for How can I use parentheses when there are math parentheses inside?
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| Jul 21, 2022 at 21:12 | comment | added | Alex Kruckman | @DavidA.Craven Oh good, we agree! | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 21:06 | comment | added | David A. Craven | @AlexKruckman Sorry, I mean that it is Jones's cat, not Jones' cat. | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 19:29 | comment | added | Alex Kruckman | @DavidA.Craven What's wrong with Jones's? The cat belonging to Jones is Jones's cat, while the cat belonging to the neighbors is the neighbors' cat. | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 16:45 | comment | added | Clément | @DavidA.Craven this should be the accepted answer. | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 15:58 | comment | added | David A. Craven | The spaces $O(X)$ and $O(Y)$ have functions defined on them as $g(x)-f(x)$ and $g(y)-f(y)$ respectively. | |
| Jul 21, 2022 at 11:15 | comment | added | Clément | @DavidA.Craven I'll be curious to see how you would formulate that statement without "resp.". If you have a nicer, more correct way that is as easy to parse as this one, I'm all ears! | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 21:45 | comment | added | David A. Craven | Oh, God. A (resp. B). It's a very useful, and completely ungrammatical piece of writing. I hate it, but have learned that my red pen of refereeing outrage cannot hold back this particular tide. For similar losing battles, see also: 'that' and 'which'; 'none is'; 'Jones's'; putting 'and' at the end of lists separated by a semicolon. | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 14:12 | comment | added | Clément | @Kimball That's very surprising to me. In the Computer Science / Mathematics papers that I read (and write!), this is clearly the common usage. I understand why it may sound incorrect, but it is, by a long shot, the easier to parse unambiguously to me. | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 14:10 | history | edited | Clément | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2022 at 12:44 | comment | added | Kimball | I agree with this usage, at least in math, but FYI not everyone does. A reviewer of one of my papers said it was wrong, and in a more general context see: english.stackexchange.com/q/212549/109750 | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 12:36 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | By convention, x is usually a member of X, etc.. I think it should be g(x)–f(x) (resp. g(y)–f(y)). | |
| Jul 20, 2022 at 11:54 | history | answered | Clément | CC BY-SA 4.0 |