Bruno Marchal wrote:
> ...
> Due to Dirac, in Quantum Mechanics, I tend to believe that brackets
> are "<" and ">". parentheses are "(" and ")". I call "{" and "}"
> accolades, but perhaps they are called bracket. The terms are not
> important as far as we understand each other. How would you call "["
> and "]" ?
I've never seen "{" and "}" denoted "accolades" but I like it; they are
more commonly called "braces". I don't know a specific term for "["
and "]", I generally refer to them as "square brackets".
Brent
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Received on Fri Jul 03 2009 - 09:59:52 PDT