[om] DefMP elements

[Professor James Davenport]

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jacques Carette wrote:
> On the multiple facets of sin:  could one instead use trig1, trig2, trig3,
> ..., trig10 CDs, each with different syntactic FMPs (and correspondingly
> different used CDs) to build 'equivalent' systems?  One for high-school
> definitions, one for the exp definition, one for the series definition, etc,
> etc. I understood that to be the original OM design of having multiple CDs.
> Each OM application could then use the 'right' CD and not worry about math
> it does not know (or want).
That wasn't the original idea - different definitions of the same sin 
should be different FMPs of the same object.
The sin in transc3 is intrinsically different from that of transc1: it is 
multivalued. 
James
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