User talk:SuperSmashley

Normalization
Hey, you're just wrong that "normalization" means "having unit length". I suspect you're getting this misapprehension from a reverse etymology of "orthonormal" or somesuch. However, "normalization" as conventionally used in the quantitative sciences usually refers to some way of putting something in a normal form, usually by a scaling freedom. Often this involves making something have unit length, but equally often it means setting the length to some other convenient value, or scaling some other aspect of a vector (e.g., making the first nonzero entry be equal to one). Thus there can be many different normalizations of a given set of vectors, usually depending on whatever is convenient at the time. For instance, see Arfken and Weber "Methods of Mathematical Physics, Vol 1". Sławomir Biały (talk) 00:44, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback
Before you begin to call people elitist, you might want to consider first discussing your changes on the talk page for Hermite polynomials and also reading this.

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