Notation for representing vector spaces

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How should I represent a vector space V with scalar field F and operation + and x? Is the notation [V, F, +, x] used, or should I use something else?
 
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Notation is what you make of it. I think most people are content just saying it in prose as you did in your first sentence.
 

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