Talk:Mathematical operator

Confusion..

I found a context where 'Mathematical operator' was linked to operator (mathematics) but on inspection, they really wanted 'operation (mathematics)' (or even 'symbol'?)

Easy mistake to make - so I though this redirect should actually be a disambiguation. Lets check the context where it's used?

Is there a better solution ('arithmetic operator' rather than 'mathematical' in the offending location(s)?)

• Mathematical_operators_and_symbols_in_Unicode
• Supplemental_Mathematical_Operators

on reflection, I see the vast majority of the time, mathematical operator does infact refer to operator (mathematics).

I just fear that others might make the same mistake.

any ideas?

This is what I tried here

mathematical operator can refer to

• Operator (mathematics), a concept in the mapping of vector spaces
• Operation (mathematics), the symbolic operators for common arithmetic operations (addition, multiplication,equality etc)

see also

• operator (computer programming), in programming languages it is common to represent arithmetic operations using infix operators, and some languages allow operator overloading. There are operators for non-arithmetic operations too (e.g. de-referencing, field access etc)
• arithmetic operator

Fmadd (talk) 06:41, 5 February 2017 (UTC)