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May 15, 2019 at 21:05 review Close votes
May 18, 2019 at 15:31
May 14, 2019 at 12:57 comment added user138661 actually, if we are talking about conventions, here is one amusing article about Hamiltonian vector fields: symplecticfieldtheorist.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/…
May 14, 2019 at 11:16 comment added LSpice Per @Wojowu's musing: signs! See, for example, Lawson - A note on sign conventions in homological algebra. (At least, that's the advertised title on Lawson's web page; the title on the linked page better describes the experience of those who have to deal with this sort of thing.)
May 14, 2019 at 9:35 comment added Dima Pasechnik it's a constant issue in group theory, how to evaluate compositions, from left or from right...
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May 14, 2019 at 8:25 answer added Francois Ziegler timeline score: 7
May 14, 2019 at 7:56 comment added Wojowu This makes me wonder more generally about when conflicting conventions have lead to incorrect results.
May 14, 2019 at 7:33 history asked user138661 CC BY-SA 4.0