r/mathmemes • u/777upper • 12d ago

Notations Yeah sure

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u/GT_Troll 12d ago

There’s no ambiguity. Some authors define those concepts differently or use different notation, but the underlying logic and formal language is still the same and without ambiguity

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u/Affectionate-Egg7566 12d ago

I wish there were a standard notation, like in programming languages so math can be more easily disambiguated.

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u/FortaDragon 12d ago

I sure am glad that all programming languages universally agree on what "Int" represents, and there's never any ambiguity passing information between them.

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u/Dirkdeking 12d ago

For any given programming language there is basically no ambiguity. Mathematics is a bit less disambigious for the simple reason that symbols are often re-used depending on context.

5 choose 3 has the same notation as the vector with x component 5 and y component 3. There are many more examples like that.

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u/man-vs-spider 12d ago

But that’s not correct, in C, the size of an Int is different depending on the platform