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unusual facts about abuse of notation


Abuse of notation

In his article on notation in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia Charles Babbage complains at length of this abuse of notation and suggests two alternatives for the notation f^n(x)


Pullback attractor

There is a slight abuse of notation in the above: the first use of "dist" refers to the Hausdorff semi-distance from a point to a set,


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