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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 6 hours agoI’m a theoretical physics grad student and a night school maths teacher, I have never heard this distinction. People in academia around me call them round and square brackets.
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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 6 hours agoI’m a theoretical physics grad student and a night school maths teacher, I have never heard this distinction. People in academia around me call them round and square brackets.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
It’s a US vs UK (and probably others) distinction. The ( ) are almost never called brackets in the US, unless it’s a regional thing I’m not aware of. Also the [ ] didn’t get used in any math classes I was in the US up through calculus except for matrices.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Interesting! Nobody at my institute is a native English speaker. They’re from several European and some Asian and south American countries.