Re:Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
by evertedsphere on Monday May 26, 2025 @08:22AM
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yes, it's the equivalent of |AB| for a line segment and is not uncommon in high school maths texts in some parts of the world
It isn't customarily used for angles (those get Greek letters).
The m stands for mystery.
Edit: ah, but I see that this prefixed m for "measure" is also used sometimes. It appears at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle#Combining_angle_pairs though I'm not sure why it's necessary. Maybe because you want to clarify absolute magnitude is meant, to avoid adding negative values.