On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:18 AM, ma...@mendelu.cz <ma...@mendelu.cz> wrote: > > On 28 čnc, 09:39, Johannes <dajo.m...@web.de> wrote: >> > 2. I wanted to avoid confusion about whether "left" meant "moving >> > leftward" as opposed to "from the left." >> >> +1 here seems to be more presice than just left or right. >> greatz Johannes > > I wonder if the preferred way how to read the limit in some language > is something like > "limit of the function f as x moves leftward and approaches a". > > I could mistaken, but I think that "limit" and "left" allways means > limit from the left, left-hand-side limit, etc. I am not fluent in > English, but despite this fact I think there is no confusion. I have > never heard on a conferrence somethink like "x moves leftward" for > limit from the right. Does anybody have another experience?
I am a native English speaker, and have never heard left or right meaning anything other than the limit *from* the left (negative) or right (positive) sides. Personally, I'd rather save the keystrokes and not have to type "from_" every time. - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
