The answer is very simple:
What is used where I grew up is correct and what is used everywhere else is just plain worng!!!
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A floating comma in Quebec.
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Isn’t a floating comma just a fantasy apostrophe?
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If it’s an apostrophe when it floats away, it should be called a peristrophe when it floats back.
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linear algebraists: why not both?
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Then there’s the perishtrophe when encountering a text string of numbers in excel
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Yep. And I still can’t do long division “the English way”, even though I’ve spent 99% of my life speaking English.
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Man, I wish I had those on my keyboard! Don’t tell me about alt-number, I’m talking about real-world data entry
Heretics!
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Obligatory:
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The x unit vector should have a hat
Also: multiplication doesn’t need a symbol. Just parentheses.
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It needs a symbol sometimes. For products of functions, because (f)(g) is confusing as to whether it’s supposed to be multiplication or composition. On a calculator because a blank button is really hard to interpret. For anything with postfix notation.
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