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On point (2) -- In four years of being a math major, I don't think a single professor ever used brackets in that situation, only additional parentheses.
by stch2 14y ago
On point (2) -- In four years of being a math major, I don't think a single professor ever used brackets in that situation, only additional parentheses.
- defrost 14y agoI'm inclined to agree that it's use would be uncommon, I've not encountered it in 30 odd years of reading papers and talking math (or rather I don't recall noticing it's use). What I must point out is you make a weak case based on myopia- for example; in 15 years of working with tens of thousands of hours of high resolution radiometrics I've never once met and talked to a dendrochronologist who's looked at the radiometric signature of individual bands of Japanese pine trees. It's my understanding that such beasts do exist.
- DoubleCluster 14y agoIt's common in engineering. I like it because it makes matching parenthesis much easier.
- sn6uv 14y agoAnother math major here (in my final year). My professors routinely use square brackets after the second or third level of bracket nesting. I think it must depend on the professor/university.