On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 07:24 pm, Michael Selik wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016, 4:56 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 05:28 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: >> >> > From fuzzy memory of sitting in statistics classes decades ago >> > filled with μ-σ etc I'd suggest μ gμ hμ >> >> In all the stats books and references I've seen, μ is always the >> population mean (implicitly the arithmetic mean). When discussing the >> different kinds of mean, A, G and H are used for arithmetic, geometric >> and harmonic means. (Other means are rarely discussed.) >> >> I don't think I've ever seen gµ or hµ. They're sort of backwards... I'd >> expect µ subscript-g or subscript-h, not the other way. >> > > I'm glad you brought up textbooks as it reminded me to say that most > scientific software is still struggling to shake off the legacy of > abbreviation. > > Now even the basic IPython shell has autocomplete :-)
Not all shells or editors are IPython, and not all abbreviations are bad. Would you rather print, or write_values_as_strings_to_the_predefined_standard_output_file? :-) -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
