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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Operators -> unit analysis
Date: 2000/01/07
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In article <8531v6$6qk$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net>,
  tsikes@netcom.com (Terry Sikes) wrote:
> In article <850tl9$thu$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Was this point argued at length after the decision was made to add the
> various annexes?  I'd think that this would be better received if it
> was tied to the Numerics annex, since certainly this would be the
> major area of use.

Not by far. There are many applications in many realms of study that
have traditionally been described by some kind of mathematical notation.
The Gnat Snobol packages are a very good example for pattern matching.
Possible other applications off the top of my head are: strings, lists,
sets, database queries, BNF, Music.

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T.E.D.


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