Talk:German terminology

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Could be a page which starts with reference to adoption of mathematics terminology into APL and vice versa (e.g. vector/matrix and ceiling/floor/Iverson bracket)

But also talks about translations of terminology into other languages (anglicised or localised) and could be a jumping off point for fully translated pages in the future?

Dt. Übersetzung "train(s)" als Zug

Ich überlegte hier, ob nicht "Folge" passend wäre - aber letztlich war dann eine Anmerkung von Richard Smith ausschlaggebend: "'Train' is a general word to mean a sequence or line of things (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/train) Its use to describe the thing that drives along railway tracks is so common you might think that's the only thing it means, but it's just a specific case: a train of engine and carriages. Another common use of the word is in "train of thought", which is the sequence of steps in coming to some conclusion. ("I was thinking about how to fix this bug but then the doorbell rang and I lost my train of thought"). So, an APL train is a train (or sequence) of functions." Und in dieser Bedeutung kennen da Wort ja auch ("Strassenzug" etc.). Insofern finde ich "Zug" sehr gut passend.