Re: brackets vs braces (was Very Absolute Beginner. . .)

[Tim Reeves]

>In over 40 years with computers I have never seen
or heard that term.  I 
>use the term I learned "angle brackets."  I don't recommend
using 
>"brokets" without defining it.

>Paul Scott

I've never seen the term "broket"
either, though physicists and mathematicians use the term "bra-ket"
in connection with quantum mechanics among other things. Maybe this is
what was meant.
 Most musicians, naturally, will
be unfamiliar with this terminology.

from wikipedia.org: Bra-ket notation
is the standard notation for describing quantum states in the theory of
quantum mechanics. It can also be used to denote abstract vectors and linear
functionals in pure mathematics. It is so called because the inner product
of two states is denoted by a bracket, <x|y> consisting of a left
part <x|, called the bra, and a right part, |y>, called the ket.
The notation was invented by Paul Dirac, and is also known as Dirac notation.
It is also the notation of choice in quantum computing.


Tim Reeves
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