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| Apr 16, 2013 at 7:00 | comment | added | Rami Luisto | Agreed, there is a risk of confusion. On the other hand I somehow find it natural, since the data consists only of "the numbers". And by this I mean that in situations like these we usually have (?) a dependence of the type $C = C(n,L,K,R)$ or something like that. So the constant $C$ depends only on the other constants, not on anything that is freely selectable by the reader. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 14:18 | comment | added | Andreas Blass | I've also seen this usage, and I don't like it, because it leaves it up to the reader to guess that, in your example, the dimension is part of the data while the mapping $f$ is not. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 6:54 | history | answered | Rami Luisto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |