Timeline for Definition of the Gauss symbol [closed]
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| Sep 3, 2019 at 13:54 | comment | added | Brian Hopkins | Why I think this question should not be closed: In my own research, I have asked other mathematicians for help with unclear notation in published papers---to me, that makes the question topical for MO. While the answer here is not profound, note that there were various initial guesses in the comments, so the answer was not necessarily obvious. | |
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| S Sep 1, 2019 at 23:40 | history | suggested | Brian Hopkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Rephrasing question as notation clarification. Such questions have been part of my own research experience, so I think it's a valid MO question.
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| Sep 1, 2019 at 14:06 | history | closed |
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| Sep 1, 2019 at 3:40 | history | edited | Nourddine Snanou | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2019 at 17:46 | answer | added | Brian Hopkins | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 12:16 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Which would imply that $S_{k,-k}=0$ if $m\mid k$ (which, in view of coprimality of $m$ and $k$, means $m=1$), and $S_{k,-k}=1$ otherwise. | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 12:08 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Seeing the context, this might in fact be just the integer part function. Moreover, Wikipedia tells me that the notation $[x]$ for integer part was actually introduced by Gauss, hence it is not unreasonable to call it the Gauss symbol (but as witnessed here, calling it as such results in nothing but confusion). | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 7:21 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Could be some form of Gauss sums. | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 3:07 | comment | added | Nourddine Snanou | Thank you Koushik for this remark. what do you think about the value of the number $S_{k(-k)}$. | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 2:11 | comment | added | Praphulla Koushik | Is it the quadratic reciprocity symbol?? I don't know if people call it Gauss symbol.. it is usually called as Legendre symbol... | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 1:59 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | I don't know. I'm familiar with the use of $[x]$ to mean the integer part of $x$, that is, the integer such that $0\le x-[x]<1$. Does that work in the paper? | |
| Aug 31, 2019 at 0:08 | history | edited | Nourddine Snanou | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2019 at 0:01 | history | asked | Nourddine Snanou | CC BY-SA 4.0 |