Message-ID: <1206418066.5458182.1583504257233@mail.yahoo.com>
Date: 2020-03-06T14:17:37Z
From: brodie gaslam
Subject: findInterval Documentation Suggestion
In-Reply-To: <24162.22179.40324.212614@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> On Friday, March 6, 2020, 8:56:54 AM EST, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Note that the? * -> LaTex -> PDF rendered version looks a bitnicer.
Ah yes, that does indeed look quite a bit nicer.
> I wrote the function and that help page originally.
And thank you for doing so. It is a wonderful function.
(0 sarcasm here).
> For that reason, replacing the well defined precise
> inequality-based definition by *much* less precise English prosa
> is out of the question.
I figured that might be an issue.? Would you be open to
providing a prose translation, but putting that in the
details? If so, it would be useful to get feedback on
what parts of the prose I proposed are imprecise enough
to be incorrect/incomplete for some corner case.
Finally, would it make sense to move this discussion to
bugzilla?
Best,
Brodie.