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Re:Translating Mathematics into Code: Examples in Java, Pyth... by coldtea on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:18AM (#9027587)
>If you feel the best way to communicate that idea is with mutation, then that doesn't stop it from being mathematics.

No, but it does stop it from being mathematics as commonly taught, written and practiced in mathematical notation, which for all intents and purposes its the same.

That is, you're technically correct, which is the worst kind of correct.

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