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<font face="Courier New">Dear Masahiro,<br>
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I accept that in some cases it might be not convenient to follow a
rule, but I think the cotangent is not the case because of 1) a
long tradition acknowledged in an international standard, 2)
consistency, 3) aesthetics, 4) ease of pronounciation, 5) virtual
impossibility of confusion (indeed, try a web search of
"definition of cot in math" (*)). The other meanings of cot have
nothing to do with math.<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Federio Miyara<br>
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<font face="Courier New"><font face="Courier New">(*) After three
and a half pages of links where cot is the cotangent symbol,
I've found this page: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.memidex.com/ctn+trigonometric-function">http://www.memidex.com/ctn+trigonometric-function</a>, where the
most serious source, the Collins dictionary, accepts also cotan
and ctn as abbreviations<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/10/2019 03:34, fujimoto2005
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Dear Federico,
Even if there is such a rule, I think that it is not useful to follow the
rule mechanically.
For example, the integral function is "intg" in scilab.
If we follow strictly the rules, it becomes "int" which is confused with the
integer (although int is not used as a keyword in scilab). The "intg" is
easier to understand it means integral.
I think it is a good way from the practical viewpoint not to limit us to
follow three characters rule.
Best regards,
Masahiro Fujimoto
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