Re: elements of odd order
- From: magidin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Arturo Magidin)
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:28:11 +0000 (UTC)
In article <1127592720.551573.278600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<mzafrullah@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Thank you for the explanation. I do not see any harm in writing a
>sequence of equations if they are related.
It's not a problem of writing sequence of equations. It's just that in
ASCII they tend to be hard to read (especially if they involve, as
yours did, exponents and complex exponents like "^{-1}".
In those cases, it is much easier to read if you put up spacing and
break them up into several lines. For example, the first few of your
equations would have been much more readable had they been written as:
a^2 b a^{-2} = a b^{-1} a^{-1}
= (a b^{-1} a)^{-1}
= (b^{-1})^{-1}
= b.
Anyway. William is not noted for either his expansiveness, clarity, or
anything other than being usually extremely terse to the point of
obscurity and being cryptic, and choosing somewhat idiosyncratic
notation, often different from that of the original poster. He will
also often answer questions not asked if they are somewhat related.
Nothing personal directed at you. That's just he way he is.
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