ASCII polar notation

[mofosyne]

So how would one do phasor/polar notations in text? I tend to write like below (depending on context)

polar = 13 /_ 22.6 ^deg

Also could want to display in polar notation rather than Cartesian. e.g.

polarNotation(polar)
      := 13 /_ 22.6 ^deg

Or maybe we should just display both as standard? Or as a display switch? Or as a function like verbose() ?

polar
     := 12.002 + 4.996i = 13 /_ 22.6 ^deg

All calculations would still be in Cartesian.

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Hmmmm... Maybe when declaring/defining a variable, it could be more flexible to parse notations like above?

[mofosyne]

Oh, btw just noted that /_ is supported by asciimath. Maybe they got a few other things we can lift, in terms of syntactic sugar variable declaration (like polar notations).

[josdejong]

Thanks for your suggestion.

We can indeed implement an operator /_, this will not give conflicts. Notation would then be 13 /_ 22.5 deg (without the ^ before deg).

I'm not sure how widely used this is, but it's interesting that this same notation is used in asciimath.

[mofosyne]

Mostly used in power engineering, physics and anything that refers to vectors in a polar notation.

E.g. cannon ball firing.