On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Franco Saliola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:00 AM, John Cremona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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! > > -1 --- I feel like I should champion the case for posets with meets > and joins. :-)
+1: Lattice as poset with meet and join -1: Lattice as abelian group with inner product. (of course I'm biaised by my French education and by what I'm working on right now :-) > > Franco > > -- > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
