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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 1 month ago

Or fancy letters, like the L in a Laplace transformation.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

And if that's not enough, you just straight up make up new symbols, like Nabla

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, because other science fields like linguistics would never just grab random letters and turn them upside down to repurpose them!

[-] Poik@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

əəəə... What do you mean? /j

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] Poik@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

Any upsidedown A in the set of all real characters used in academia would immediately illicit mathematical memories.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 1 month ago

Did you mean ALL the upside up A?

[-] Poik@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago

Nope, it means "for any" as in no matter which one you choose it will be correct.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantification

I usually used it as "for all", but its looks like "for any" is used too

[-] Poik@pawb.social 1 points 1 month ago

I sit corrected. It's used as an arbitrary singular value within the proof, so for any always felt more appropriate.

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