2008/4/24 William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Franco Saliola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  >  On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >  We might want to think about the naming conventions for Lattice. As
>  >  >  with all words in mathematics, this one has multiple meanings. A
>  >  >  lattice can be a poset with a meet and a join, or it can be a free
>  >  >  abelian group with an inner product.
>
>  I call dibs on Lattice being "free abelian group with an inner product".

+1 --assuming that we can find a suitable name for the other kind!

John

>
>
>  :-)
>
>  >
>  >  This is a good point. The only thing I can think of is to append
>  >  something: for example, LatticeGroup. I'm not sure how natural that
>  >  is. LatticePoset is definitely not. Other suggestions?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  --
>  >
>  >  >
>  >
>
>
>
>  --
>  William Stein
>  Associate Professor of Mathematics
>  University of Washington
>  http://wstein.org
>
>
>
>  >
>

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
URLs: http://www.sagemath.org
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to