[texhax] \binom

[Yannis Haralambous]

What puzzled me when I started using TeX in the early eighties, were  
the commands \cup and \cap (symbols I called "union" and  
"intersection"); everytime I used them I had to spend a few seconds  
visualizing in my mind a cup (= coupe) and a cap (= chapeau) to figure  
out which one I should choose. I could never use them naturally... Are  
they called like that in oral mathematics in the Anglosaxon world?

On the other hand, I had no difficulties in learning \hat because in  
French we also say "chapeau" for the circumflex (in mathematics).

Le 1 mars 09 à 23:55, C.A.Rowley at open.ac.uk a écrit :

> There is no definition of what mathematical expression any bit of TeX
> 'denotes'.

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                             ...pour distinguer l'extérieur d'un  
aquarium,
                                            mieux vaut n'être pas  
poisson

                            ...the ball I threw while playing in the  
park
                                           has not yet reached the  
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