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Algebra in school is like a compiler with shitty type inference: you rarely have to write type annotations and you can easily end up with impossible states. (lemmy.ml)

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[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Leonard Euler was just the 16th century maths version of Alan Smithee that people wrote on papers as a joke, and you can't convince me otherwise.

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