- From: Henri Girard <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs name
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:10:26 +0100
Le mercredi 09 décembre 2009 à 08:09 +0100, Gubinelli Massimiliano a
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(almost crossposting from address@hidden)
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Dear all,
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I would like to revive once more the debate on the name for the
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TeXmacs program. There are many reasons for believing that the
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current
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name does not serve very well the popularity of the program. I've
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just
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come across to another possibility (among many other already proposed
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and lost somewhere in the internet):
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* Quipu (or kipu, or khipu) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu).
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Apparently this is the ancient way Incas had to keep various kind
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of informations and seems to mean "knot" so there is some link with
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mathematics and with structured information. The images of Quipus
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make
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me think to trees (of TeXmacs tags).
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Here en excerpt of the wikipedia page (nice and worth reading)
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Most of the information recorded on the quipus consists of numbers in
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a decimal system;[1] see The encoding system below.
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Some of the knots, as well as other features such as color, are
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thought to represent non-numeric information, which has not been
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deciphered. It is generally thought that the system did not include
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phonetic symbols analogous to letters of the alphabet. However Gary
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Urton has suggested that the quipus used a binary system which could
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record phonological or logographicdata.
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Another possible name :
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* Tiamat (Tiamat is another mathematical authoring tool)
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which has the benefit to allow to conserve the extension .tm
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Best,
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Massimiliano
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ps: thanks to Martin for correcting my previous post on texmacs-dev.
Please don't choose a name like "maxima" or axiom ! i can tell you to
google such name is really craps ! in maths axiom and maxima being a
maths word !
texmacs is so known... i am french i suggest texbricol (it's a joke !
well a nice name anyway)
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