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[–] 13 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

While I never failed a math class, I also never went past high school. When would your presumptions NOT be true?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Some forms of programming syntax, although there are the fringe cases where an equation (or function in programming) is represented by a symbol in conjunction with a parentheses input.

    For example:

    y(x) = 2*x+3

    5+y(1) = 10, as 1 is substituted in for x in the prior equation.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    And in some languages a number can be used as a name of a variable or a function, so it can be anything really

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Not in most programming languages, though. You cannot start names with a number. Unless you're using some strange character that merely looks like a number, anyways. Programming with unicode can get weird but generally works without issue these days.

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