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army1987 comments on What was your biggest recent surprise? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: DataPacRat 09 June 2012 11:57PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 June 2012 03:32:20PM 1 point [-]

I don't recall encountering this usage before. Is it widespread?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 10 June 2012 04:41:36PM 2 points [-]

It is certainly in use, I don't know how widespread it is. Generally in high dimensions one is just interested in SO(n) anyways, so there's not that much need to make the distinction in most contexts.