notation

Complexity, Big O notation, sorting and searching are introduced in the first two or three weeks.

Gaussian units and Einstein notation are a godsend.

For everybody else, I'd like to apologize for the notation.

Clojure, for example, provides sets using the #{} notation.

One of the I interesting things I learned was that people used to write out equations as sentences before symbolic notation was invented.

If I'm solving something inherently mathematical, I want the code to resemble math notation.

Then you realize that hand-written traditional notation is quite different from typeset one, just like handwritten text is very different from printed text.

This is tantamount to mathematicians who create their own notation to establish proofs--such proofs can be completely unreadable to their colleagues.

You know, in years and years and years of programming, of applications and web and back-end and front-end etc etc, I have never had a real-life use case for Big-O notation, except in interviews.

They call the languages "runnable maths", or "active maths", where they think of a minimal notation to specify how a system should behave, and then implement a compiler to run that notation as code.

Good thing all source code is just very convenient mathematical notation describing an algorithm... This to me is the most fundamental reason software patents are insane.

In the technical phone interview I was asked some esoteric questions about finding the intersection of two integer arrays, what the O-notation would be, and so forth.

Examples are the mathematical notations of various disciplines, the jargon-laden meta-language of historical theory/literary criticism, and what is popularly known as 'legalese'.

You also know that if you tried to express the concept defined in a previous sentence, but without using names for measures involved, and a notation for a value a measure assigns to some set, the sentence would come out awkward and complicated, because you would have to say that a measure is absolutely continuous with respect to some other measure, if whenever that other measure assigns a zero value to some set, the value assigned to that set by the first measure must be zero as well.

In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory....Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence; indeed, it would be ludicrous to expect a child to sing a song or play an instrument without having a thorough grounding in music notation and theory.