Invisible times?
There must be some sort of explanation.
What about invisible plus?
> Invisible Times AKA: ascii character 0x20 :wink:
That’s even more odd.
I imagine it’s used when you want to display multiplication-by-juxtaposition, but you also want something in the character stream to indicate that it really is multiplication. But that’s just a guess.
That’s odd… more even lol
also quite possible it has to do with kerning, so latex, etc. can format equations a bit nicer
@jax That’s sounds plausible. But now Sorawee has found an invisible plus.
@massung Could be. I think “invisible” means zero width.
@soegaard2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Character_Set_characters#:~:text=Unicode%205.1%20introduces%20the%20Mathematical,sum%2C%20but%20not%20their%20product. > Invisible Times (U+2062) and Function Application (U+2061) are useful in mathematics text where the multiplication of terms or the application of a function is implied without any glyph indicating the operation. Unicode 5.1 introduces the Mathematical Invisible Plus character as well (U+2064) which may indicate that an integral number followed by a fraction should denote their sum, but not their product.
Mixed fractions! Good for baking. But everything else …
He was just talking about this at Haskell.Love.
time to build a language that exclusively uses these operations
and since it’s genuine traditional math notation, it’ll be easy for newcomers to read
For once a language where blind have an advantage.
(due to screen readers)
I’ve taught from this if anyone wants more details. It worked out quite well and I will be designing an online grad course based on it.
@plragde I’m quite interested.