On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 3:39:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 07:24 pm, Michael Selik wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016, 4:56 AM Steven D'Aprano 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? > > :-)
Newton's law F = -Gm₁m₂/r² Better seen in its normal math form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation#Modern_form De-abbreviated Force is given by the negative of the universal_gravitational_constant times the mass_of_first_body times mass_of_second_body divided by the square of the distance_between_the_bodies Cobol anyone? Ok with typical python naming Force = (universal_gravitational_constant * mass_of_first_body * mass_of_second_body) / (distance_between_the_bodies*distance_between_the_bodies) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
