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   Hans Aberg to Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson   
   Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plate   
   10 Jun 12 01:12:28   
   
   From: haberg-news@telia.com   
      
   On 2012/06/07 20:15, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:   
   > Mathematicians have an implied operator between symbols.  You can't do   
   > that with multi character names.  Not in a way that can make sense, to   
   > me.   
      
   In mathematics, the spacing is different - check out TeX. For example,   
   the name "sin" is typeset somewhat tighter than implicit multiplication   
   of the three variables "s", "i" and "n". Unicode has various spaces that   
   might be used.   
      
   Hans   
      
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