• fx3@beehaw.org
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    3 months ago

    IIRC, your spoilery “so” is the other way round. The right side is the definition, and the left-hand side a layman’s shorthand, as the root operator isn’t defined on negative numbers.

    I might very well be wrong. My being a mathematician has been over for a while now, my being a pedantic PITA not though.

    • Deebster@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      I don’t know enough to know how correct your pedantry is (technically or not), but to explain the meme it made sense to go through the symbols in the order you see them. I never got any points from the proof questions in exams anyway.