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[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

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

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 points 2 days 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.