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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by gbh444g on Sunday May 29, 2022 @05:25AM (#31547754)
> how someone can overengineer a solution

If his solution doesn't work with arbitrary number-like objects (matrices at the very least), doesn't support voice input, can't send results via email and can't seamlessy resume the calculations after a hardware failure, it's far from overengineered.

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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by zeroonetwothree on Sunday May 29, 2022 @11:59AM (#31550173)
Matrices don’t form a field so I would say they are not really “number-like” in the full sense.
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