From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-14T10:46:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting

From: "William Djaja Tjokroaminata" <billtj@z.glue.umd.edu>


> OK, OK, I agree with you.  One problem with ASCII-based text like this is
> I don't know how to create that equal sign which is "wiggling" (which
> denotes "approximately" in mathematics notation), nor even how to create
> the "subset" notation (which is the "U" character rotated by -90
> degrees).  The use of '~' probably will make everyone to think about the
> bitwise negation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill

On the contrary, I think nearly everybody would think "approximately" when they
see "~" next to a number.  It wouldn't even occur to me to think of it as some
crummy bitwise operation.  I'm a person, not a C compiler!

Regarding set operations, sometimes you have to make do with words...

Gavin