On 12/16/18 3:33 PM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
> I've spent some time in the past few days reviewing what terms authors have used for cross products of one-dimensional real, bounded, intervals and found
>
> cuboid
> $d$-rectangle (in $d$ dimensions)
> parallelepiped
> box
> cell
>
> Some of these terms are already used in various programming languages.

But we're not talking about *real* intervals - we're talking about "intervals"
of (exact) integers.  Do mathematicians use the term "interval" for sets
restricted to consecutive integers or cartesian products thereof?

The term "shape" or "array-shape" is used by SRFI 25.
The work "shape" is also used by Racket, NumPy, and APL, though since all
only support lower bounds of 0, their shape is a simple vector.
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