Shunyaya Symbolic Mathematical Symbols – Scope, Non-Goals, and ASCII Policy (1.8)

What this page covers
What Shunyaya Symbolic Mathematical Symbols includes, what it explicitly does not do, and the blog-wide plain ASCII policy for formulas and identifiers.

Scope (what is covered)

  • Representation + operators only: a portable operator canon over (m, a) with explicit guards.
  • Collapse parity: classical results are preserved under phi for every operator.
  • Streaming-safe sums: explicit accumulators (U, W) for associative addition in batch and stream.
  • Composability: the same operators build scalars, vectors, matrices, and polynomials.
  • Optional environment hook: gate alignment only (a_env = g_t * a_op); magnitudes unchanged.

Non-goals (what is not covered)

  • No domain physics or control: observation-only math, not a kinetics/controls model.
  • No operational guarantees: decisions and safety remain with domain processes.
  • No stochastic claims: does not add probability semantics by itself.
  • No privacy promises: bounded alignment is not a privacy mechanism.
  • No hidden priors: any priors or gates must be declared explicitly in the manifest.

ASCII policy (document-wide)

  • Plain ASCII only: formulas, identifiers, and operators use standard ASCII characters.
  • No Unicode symbols: avoid typographic quotes, em dashes, subscripts/superscripts, or special glyphs.
  • Numeric style: decimal point ., scientific notation like 1e-6, and explicit signs.
  • Consistency: keep variable and operator names (s_add, s_mul, etc.) consistent throughout.

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