How do you say the mathematical function in English:
x^y (or xy)
For example, how do you say
2^16 (or 216)
I know ^ means 'power' or 'exponentiate', but that is the name of the operation, not how you pronounce its use.
If y = 2, it is 'x…
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In the mathematics,
a < b
I think it should be said as "a is less than b"
So, does can I say the title ("a < b < c") as
b is larger than a and less than c
or is there a better way to say?
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how should one read
in plain English?
In the following sentence, for example:
"let f be a function defined on/over/from/(other) A to/(other) B"?
edit:
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However, I originally I…
I have seen the expression, "X is the Hilbert space in which the element x lives". As a native speaker, this seems quite sloppy to me. Is there a more succinct way to formulate this expression?
I don't know how to read this expression:
(x-y)2 — sometimes rendered in computer code or plain text as (x-y)^2
According to this answer:
How to read x^y
I should read that: x minus y to the power of two
But I'm not sure it's the way that native…
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