In addition to George Stoica's incisive observation, there is a bit more one can say about the notion of canonical.
Todd Rowland observes: The word canonical is used to indicate a particular choice from of a number of possible conventions. This convention allows a mathematical object or class of objects to be uniquely identified or standardized.
In addition to George Stoica's incisive observation, there is a bit more one can say about the notion of canonical.
Todd Rowland observes: The word canonical is used to indicate a particular choice from of a number of possible conventions. This convention allows a mathematical object or class of objects to be uniquely identified or standardized.
Aside from the good explanations given by dears George and James, particularly in computer science, canonical forms are used to reprsent data uniquely to optimize memory usage, which in that case is meant unique form of information/data.