From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Function name problem
Date: 2000/01/26
Date: 2000-01-26T09:35:34+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873drluqe1.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01qg4.3200$%Y3.193028@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net
"Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:
> The operator symbol "=" to mean equality has a long history, dating to
> 1577, when it was used by Robert Recorde:
``And to auiode the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equal to:
I will sette as I doe often in woorke use, a paire of parallelees, or
Gemowe lines of one lengthe, thus: =, bicause noe .2. thynges, can be
moare equalle.'' (Robert Recorde, The Whetstone of Witte. London, 1557.)
(Cited by Knuth/Graham/Patashnik in `Concrete Mathematics' when they
give reason for overloading the `=' symbol as part of the O notatition.)
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-15 0:00 Function name problem Harald Schmidt
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David A. Cobb
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David A. Cobb
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Harald Schmidt
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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