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Re: Motion 13 terminology and notation



On 2010-04-26 15:12:11 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Motion 13 should follow the terminology and notation defined by
> previous motions.

I would add: and by other international standards. Otherwise this
would add confusion.

For instance, ISO 31-11 defines ⊂ (the symbol that looks like a U
turned 90° to the right) as the "is a proper subset of" symbol[*],
not "is interior to".

[*] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-11

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