Timeline for Is the Jaccard distance a distance?
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| Jan 19, 2021 at 0:20 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Fixed both grammar and a minor oversight ($r$ can be 0). | |
| Jan 19, 2021 at 0:17 | history | edited | darij grinberg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 49 characters in body
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| Nov 22, 2018 at 19:55 | comment | added | Suvrit | I had added the comma not for grammatical reasons, but for focusing the reader to pause after having read the "definition" (notice :=) of $\delta$. If I had written $\delta = $, then I would not have placed that comma (a partial violation of grammar, for reasons of indicating a focus / pause). | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 18:22 | comment | added | Qfwfq | @LSpice: Now that I read better, yes, I agree: the comma shouldn't be there. But the user Gabriel Fair made a similar comment directly on the OP, where the punctuation after the formula was ok, so I guessed his doubts were about what I said in my previous comment. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 18:04 | comment | added | LSpice | @Qfwfq, I think that explanation doesn't work here, since the comma doesn't belong in a plain English sentence either; one wouldn't say "then delta, is a metric". | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 23:51 | comment | added | Qfwfq | @Gabriel Fair 2017: English sentences, whether or not containing mathematical formulae, are still English sentences, with punctuation working as usual. | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 1:05 | comment | added | Gabriel Fair | oh, thanks. I'm a beginner and I saw the same thing on the wikipedia page and I was very confused. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 0:46 | comment | added | Suvrit | I see, it looks visually a bit unfortunately placed; it's just a punctuation after the equation; I don't want to edit the answer just to add a tiny bit more space between the equation and the comma though. | |
| Oct 25, 2017 at 0:16 | comment | added | Gabriel Fair | What does that prime (comma) character mean in the denominator of your corollary equation? | |
| Jul 3, 2015 at 13:39 | history | answered | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |