I hate those guys. I had one prof at uni and he reinvented every possible symbol and everything was so his own. It was a pain in the ass to learn from external material.
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RandomWalker@lemmy.world 11 months agoI could be completely wrong, but I doubt any of my (US) professors would reference an ISO definition, and may not even know it exists. Mathematicians in my experience are far less concerned about the terminology or symbols used to describe something as long as they’re clearly defined. In fact, they’ll probably make up their own symbology just because it’s slightly more convenient for their proof.
Emmie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
they’ll probably make up their own symbology just because it’s slightly more convenient for their proof
I feel so thoroughly called out RN.
gens@programming.dev 11 months ago
From what i understand, you can pay iso to standardise anything. So it’s only useful for interoperability.
KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can I pay them to make my dick length the ISO standard?
gens@programming.dev 11 months ago
I feel they have an image to maintain, but i also feel they would sell out for enough money. So… tell me if you make it.
expr@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah, interoperability. Like every software implementation of natural numbers that include 0.
WldFyre@lemm.ee 11 months ago
How programmers utilize something doesn’t mean it’s the mathematical standard, idk why ISO would be a reference for this at all
thewowwedeserve@feddit.de 11 months ago
Because ISO is the International Organisation for Standardization
xkforce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah dont do that.
doctordevice@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
My experience (bachelor’s in math and physics, but I went into physics) is that if you want to be clear about including zero or not you add a subscript to specify. For non-negative integers you add a subscript zero (N_0). For strictly positive natural numbers you can either do N_1 or N^(+).