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1 year agoThis post confuses me. Why would code be simpler than the math notation? Both involve symbolic abstraction of basically the same complexity
This post confuses me. Why would code be simpler than the math notation? Both involve symbolic abstraction of basically the same complexity
Mathematical notation was designed to be written by hand. It is at least as clear and descriptive as any syntax from a programming language. You’re pretending that the abstraction behind a for loop is somehow less than that behind a sum or product notation.