Timeline for English language and Mathematics
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| Feb 16, 2017 at 13:47 | comment | added | Bazin | @Neil Strickland The function $t\mapsto t^2$ is vanishing at order 2 at $0$, no other order of vanishing is relevant. | |
| Feb 16, 2017 at 7:08 | comment | added | JMP | Sigma has a tangential curve gamma with an order of contact k | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 17:57 | comment | added | Neil Strickland | I would be more concerned about specifying whether this counts as order $k$ or order $k-1$. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 16:55 | comment | added | Kevin Walker | Both of your examples sound like idiomatic mathematical English to me. Possibly other ways of saying it are more established in the literature, but the fact that you are asking this question puts an upper bound on just how well established these hypothetical other ways are. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 16:50 | comment | added | Lazzaro Campeotti | I like the first one. It seems pretty standard: for example the Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(mathematics) uses more or less this formulation. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 15:55 | comment | added | user44143 | I like "the curve gamma is tangent to Sigma with a contact of order k" | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 15:39 | history | edited | Nate Eldredge |
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| Feb 15, 2017 at 15:04 | history | asked | Bazin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |