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Re:Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too by worthless-trash on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:05AM (#46134044)
> You don't have "the manual" of programming languages. "

Well, we kinda do when you can say "this python program" the problem with a lot of math is that you can't even tell which manual to look up.

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Re:Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too by nkrisc on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:42AM (#46134384)
Someone not educated in programming would not know that a given text is Python source code.
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Re:Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too by worthless-trash on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:43AM (#46136636)
Same problem, but unlike math notation, it is MUCH clearer and even my 10 year old newphew can tell python from javascript and C.
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Re:Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too by nkrisc on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @12:28PM (#46137303)
I would wager that a vast majority of people on the planet could not distinguish Python from JavaScript from C.
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Re:Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too by worthless-trash on Friday December 05, 2025 @12:50AM (#46157193)
When it says "this python" program, they dont need to, it says its python. Math notation doesn't have that clarity.
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