Technically proficient with Microsoft Office Suite? Or Technically proficient in Microsoft Office Suite?  Please help me to understand if the sentence is correct?  Thank You!
Which preposition is correct in the phrase "proficient in/at/with English"?
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In my textbook on elementary number theory from a class last year, as well as elsewhere through my academic experience and even posts here, I often see the greatest common divisor notated as $(a,b)$ (where this represents the greatest common divisor of $a,b$).  My question is, why is such an unusual notation used? I say it's unusual (if not a bit absurd), for a couple of reasons:   It is unintuitive. It does not grant the reader an immediate knowledge of what it means. In particular, I can easily see it being misinterpreted as an ordered pair of points, and not as a function (which it basically is and I touch on in a second) or representing a single value. Good notation would be immediately understood, no? One should not struggle with parsing through the context or meaning. A clearer notation is often used, and just three letters away. You could certainly think of $(a,b)$ as an ordered pair, if we consider it a function. I often see the alternate $gcd(a,b)$: a function, which takes in two inputs ($a$ and $b$), and outputs their greatest common divisor (or factor, if you prefer). Merely adding the three letters makes the notation clearer by clarifying it is  a function, and using a relatively well-accepted acronym. (Or, at least, I often hear it abbreviated "g.c.d." in school.)   I've mulled this over for a while and I can't think of much without borrowing inspiration from other "unusual" notations. For example:   Common understanding in context: consider the $\log(x)$ function. Depending on context, without a base stated as seen here, it can be presumed to mean whatever is most "appropriate." It could be base $e$ (common in mathematics), base $10$ (common in engineering), or base $2$ (common in computer science). The ambiguity is essentially resolved by context in other words - personally, not a fan of that (I like the explicit stating of bases for full clarity), but if such a motivation holds elsewhere, it might stand to reason that $(a,b)$ could just be taken as a shorthand and "understood" in the context of number theory to simply be the greatest common divisor. That it is in fact used despite $gcd(a,b)$ being clearer and somewhat common also does seem to suggest this playing a role. Perhaps it just started that way and it kept being used. For example,  (based on a ) regarding how logarithms, roots, and exponentiation can be unintuitive from a notation perspective, and proposes an alternative, easier to understand notation. I haven't been in middle school in nearly a decade, but guessing from discussions online, that obviously hasn't really picked up too much. In that sense, perhaps it's like that for $(a,b)$: like we still notate exponentiation, etc., the same way today despite how counterintuitive it is (at least for students), perhaps it just "stuck" and proliferated?   I wasn't able to easily find any reason why online, and it bugs me a bit, so I ask:     Why do we so unintuitively notate the greatest common divisor of two numbers $a,b$ as $(a,b)$?   I of course recognize that this is somewhat moot in light of how easily it's made clear - as established above, all I have to do is append the front of the parenthetical by $gcd$ or $gcf$ to make it way better. And of course, people do that. But I'm more curious in where this ambiguous former notation arose and, in light of a better notation, why it is still used today. ImportError: No module named dbus I was trying to update my Python and messed up my whole system.   I am currently now able to start my Software Centre. I tried Googling multiple fixes but nothing helped. My Software Centre can't start.   When I try starting it up, this error shows:  astephen@localhost:/usr/bin$ ./software-centerGtk-Message: Failed to load module "gtk-vector-screenshot" Traceback (most recent call last): File "./software-center", line 36, in &lt;module&gt; from softwarecenter.utils import ( File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/utils.py", line 19, in &lt;module&gt; import dbus ImportError: No module named dbus   I tried reinstalling dbus using:  apt-get install --reinstall dbus   But it did not help.  astephen@localhost:/usr/bin$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall dbusReading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not      upgraded. Need to get 0 B/231 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 676272 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../dbus_1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3_amd64.deb ... Unpacking dbus (1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3) over (1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up dbus (1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3) ... I know only the very basics of TikZ, having only used it to produce a pretty flow chart for one of my documents. I recently learned that you can use Inkscape and export to TikZ.  What are the limitations of the Inkscape->TikZ workflow? Is there some compelling reason to take the time to learn TikZ (which I'm told has a fairly steep learning curve) rather than simply exporting to TikZ from Inkscape? Removing leading zeroes from a field in a SQL statement I am working on a SQL query that reads from a SQLServer database to produce an extract file. One of the  requirements to remove the leading zeroes from a particular field, which is a simple VARCHAR(10) field. So, for example, if the field contains '00001A', the SELECT statement needs to return the data as '1A'.  Is there a way in SQL to easily remove the leading zeroes in this way? I know there is an RTRIM function, but this seems only to remove spaces. How do I get the distance meter value between two geometries in PostGIS? I have a simple question about calculating distances in PostGIS.  I would like to get the distance between two geometries. I am using this sid : 4269 in meters what i am doing now is this : ST_Distance((a.geom,b.geom)) FROM ... but I am getting result in degrees. I think that I should work with geography but how can I cast a geom to a geography? I tried with (a.geom::geography) but i am getting an error.  What can I do to get my result in meters?   Thank You Does $\pi$ contain all possible number combinations? I came across the :    Which states:     $\pi$ Pi      Pi is an infinite, nonrepeating $($sic$)$ decimal - meaning that   every possible number combination exists somewhere in pi.  Converted   into ASCII text, somewhere in that infinite string of digits is the   name of every person you will ever love, the date, time and manner    of your death, and the answers to all the great questions of    the universe.   Is this true? Does it make any sense ? XGBoost Loss function Approximation With Taylor Expansion Base64 Encode String in VBScript I have a web service load driver that's a Windows Script File (WSF), that includes some VBScript and JavaScript files. My web service requires that the incoming message is base64 encoded. I currently have a VBScript function that does this, but it's very inefficient (memory intensive, mostly due to VBScripts awful string concatenation)  [Aside; Yes, I've seen . The concatenation is happening in a loop across messages that are 1,000's to 10,000's bytes in size.]  I've tried using some custom string concatenation routines; one using an array and one using ADODB.Stream. These help, a little, but I think it would help more if I had some other way of encoding the message rather than via my own VBS function.  Is there some other way of encoding my message, preferebly using native Windows methods? Typesetting linguistic rewrite rule I'm trying to (more or less) replicate this phonological rewrite rule:    I'm using the package , and what I manage to accomplish is this:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{phonrule} \begin{document}  \phonc     {\phonfeat{$-$cnt\\ +hi}}     {[$\alpha$grv]}     {\oneof{%         \phonfeat{$-$cnt\\ $\alpha$grv}\phold\\         \phold\phonfeat{$-$cnt\\ $\alpha$vce}%     }}  \end{document}     My main problem here is what appears after the "when" slash:  (1) The package only provides a left curly bracket - how can I add a right one as well?  (2) The two options within the curly brackets are not well aligned. I think comparing the two pictures themselves says it better than what I could do with words. How can I benchmark my HDD? I've seen commands to benchmark one's HDD such as this using dd:  $ time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero of=ddfile bs=8k count=250000 &amp;&amp; sync"   Are there better methods to do so than this? loading a view in popup hi i'm trying to display a view in a popup but unable to get a solution. i tried   colorbox node module popup views integration module   Is there any better way to display a view as a popup ? Why is the main page showing only the user login form? A linear operator commuting with all such operators is a scalar multiple of the identity. For a project I'm working on, I need to represent network flows over 1,000 zones with directionality.    Any suggestions on displaying the information in a nice and non overwhelming way?  Any examples on displaying network flows in heavy urban areas? Color suggestions and thickness schemes? any "not to dos" when representing network flows? Drop In Reputation - But No Record Of Why? Is there a command to delete all the files in a directory that haven't been modified in N days?  I need to clean up some old logs. Given a DateTime representing a person's birthday, how do I calculate their age in years?