vfprintf typing problem

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 04/02/2012 10:31 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> I've never seen that in any mathematical literature.
>
> I see it all the time.  Picking a source somewhat at random:
>
>    "Let us fix a family (φ[j]) j = 1,..., p such that
>     φ[j] ∈ D(V[j]), 0 ≤ φ[j] ≤ 1, ∑ φ[j] ≡ 1 on M."
>
>    -- Tartakoff DS. Nonelliptic Partial Differential Equations.
>       Developments in Mathematics, 2011, Volume 22, 159-189,
>       <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9813-2_13>
>
> It's natural to translate commonly used mathematical notation like
> "0 ≤ i < 1000" to "0 <= i && i < 1000" in C.

That is a completely different case.  You will never see 0 < ε.

Andreas.

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