https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0909.2088/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35528963urn:hackerpapers:mention:0909.2088:35528963Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:15:00 GMT<p>Mathematics is a vast subject and I can’t keep track of all developments. In 2010 there was a paper on meadows. I’ve never heard the term before. In that paper it is written: As usual in field theory, the convention to consider p / q as an abbreviation for p · q−1 was used in subsequent work on meadows (see e.g. [2,5]). This convention is no longer satisfactory if partial variants of meadows are con- sidered too, as is demonstrated in [3]. So, as I’ve stated many times, I talked about convention and indicated you can use whatever terms you want. In the paper quoted above they acknowledge what…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/0909.2088/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>math.RA