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The '''dangerous bend''' symbol was created by the [[Nicolas Bourbaki]] group of mathematicians and appears in the margins of [[mathematics]] books written by the group. It looks like a [[road sign]] that indicates a "dangerous bend" in the road ahead, and is used to mark passages tricky on a first reading or with an especially difficult argument. Others, including computer scientist [[Donald Knuth]], used the symbol in their textbooks. |
The '''dangerous bend''' symbol was created by the [[Nicolas Bourbaki]] group of mathematicians and appears in the margins of [[mathematics]] books written by the group. It looks like a [[road sign]] that indicates a "dangerous bend" in the road ahead, and is used to mark passages tricky on a first reading or with an especially difficult argument. Others, including computer scientist [[Donald Knuth]], used the symbol in their textbooks. |
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==Typography== |
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In the [[LaTeX]] typesetting system, the dangerous bend symbol can be written as <pre>\begin{danger} ... \end{danger} |
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\begin{ddanger} ... \end{ddanger}.</pre> This requires LaTeX3. [http://texnicalstuff.blogspot.com/2009/08/latex-macros.html]. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 17:06, 24 May 2011
The dangerous bend symbol was created by the Nicolas Bourbaki group of mathematicians and appears in the margins of mathematics books written by the group. It looks like a road sign that indicates a "dangerous bend" in the road ahead, and is used to mark passages tricky on a first reading or with an especially difficult argument. Others, including computer scientist Donald Knuth, used the symbol in their textbooks.
Typography
In the LaTeX typesetting system, the dangerous bend symbol can be written as
\begin{danger} ... \end{danger}
\begin{ddanger} ... \end{ddanger}.This requires LaTeX3. [1].