Dijkstra notation in physics or statistics

[bjbr...@gmail.com]

Hello All,

In the privacy of my own scribbling I am comfortable using Dijkstra's bracket notation and other conventions of the Calculus of Boolean Structures, but I haven't used it or seen it used in published work in physical science or applied statistics. But I just put a manuscript on Arxiv that uses the conventions extensively.

Estimating the Missing Mass, Partition Function or Evidence for a Case of Sampling from a Discrete Set

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13207

See the Section on Notation and the Appendix with Remarks on Notation, and of course all the manuscript for its application. The work needs some further development before it goes to a journal, and I have no idea how much the notation will be an issue.

Comments will be appreciated, and I will certainly appreciate to know of precedent for Dijkstra's notation in physics or statistics literature.

Bas Braams