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Re:Functions are Vectors by User23 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:16PM (#36926293)
Caching and evaluation doesn’t make any kind of sense for mathematical functions. They’re just mappings.
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Re:Functions are Vectors by slavapestov on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:24PM (#36926743)
Yeah, but it’s true in a sense because an element of a finite-dimensional vector space can be thought of as a function from a finite set into a field.
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Re:Functions are Vectors by xigoi on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:32PM (#36946879)
Only if the space has a canonical basis.
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