[Alphabetic or ideographic]
I guess we could say mathematic notations are ideographic, in some sense,
but not at all like ideographic natural languages. With the logic
background of the west, perhaps Western is more like a mathematical notation?
Chivalric poetry in predicate calculus... hmm `interesting' ;-)
- --
Benedict Adamson, Project Engineer, Computational Dynamics Limited.
PHONE: +44 (0)181 969 9639 FAX: +44 (0)181 968 8606
POST: Olympic House, 317 Latimer Road, London W10 6RA, ENGLAND.