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dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 months agoAlso: sometimes, a mathematician just has to invent some concept or syntax to convey something unconventional. The specific use of subscript/superscript, whatever ‘phi’ is being used for, etc. on whatever paper you’re reading doesn’t have to correlate to how other work uses the same concepts. It’s bad form, but sometimes its needed, and if useful enough is added to the general canon of what we call “math”. Meanwhile, you can encapsulate and obfuscate things in software, sure, but you can always get down to the bedrock of what the language supports; there’s no inventing anything new.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yea, that’s it. Math syntax was created for humans, and programming syntax had to always remain deterministic. It’s not an insult to either, just interesting how ambiguities show up often when humans are involved.
SmartmanApps@programming.dev 10 months ago
Maths is 100% deterministic for order of operations. The issue is people not following all of the rules. Order of operations thread index
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Math is. The syntax is arbitrary in some edge cases.
SmartmanApps@programming.dev 10 months ago
Such as?