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Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by ipnon on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:08AM (#21851238)
These are books about mathematics that are free and open-source.
Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by vo2maxer on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:54AM (#21851414)
I don’t believe that the most instructive action to take on the list is to quibble about the title. Also, we humans still excel at context and language processing in general ;-)
Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by shocks on Saturday December 21, 2019 @09:43AM (#21851361)
Not sure why you’ve been downvoted.

The title is ambiguous, it could mean open source textbooks that are free of Mathematics!

Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by wizzwizz4 on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:48AM (#21852057)
It could only mean that if it were hyphenated. Given that "Open-Source" is hyphenated, one can assume that hyphens have been made explicit, not left implied, and hence this title does not contain that ambiguity.
Re:Free and Open-Source Mathematics Textbooks by ipnon on Monday December 30, 2019 @01:34PM (#21915555)
The title of the submission was changed after my initial comment. The original title was "Mathematics Free Open Source Textbooks", which I interpreted as "textbooks without mathematics that are open source." My initial comment was intended to clarify the content on the submission for people reading the comments.