Quote:Original post by instinKtQuote:Original post by joanusdmentiaQuote:Original post by instinKt
A friend of mine was told there was no such thing as negative natural numbers.
Fixed.
Don't defend a lousy teacher who was too lazy to explain to the other kids what a negative number was!
Quote:Original post by TheAdmiralQuote:Original post by Steadtler
The OP asked for the meaning of ^ in math, and I stand that it is the conjunction, and not any of the other meanings mentionned here.
That's pretty narrow-minded. There is no universal standard for mathematics, just convention. While you may prefer to have ^ default to logical conjunction, there is no denying that it is commonly used for a whole variety of other things, and hence it represents them. Hell, I've seen some horribly perverse notation in my days, but I've never claimed ant of it to be 'wrong'. Indeed, if the writer defines their own notation, that's their prerogative and nobody can refute their use of it.
The whole argument's pretty much moot anyway. I would hope it's very clear from the context what is meant.
Admiral
Quote:Original post by joanusdmentiaQuote:Original post by instinKtQuote:Original post by joanusdmentiaQuote:Original post by instinKt
A friend of mine was told there was no such thing as negative natural numbers.
Fixed.
Don't defend a lousy teacher who was too lazy to explain to the other kids what a negative number was!
Don't defend a smart-ass student who thinks he's cool by dropping 1 word and saying 'OMG MY TAECHER CANT DO MATH!'.....or at least I hope that's what happened [smile]
Quote:Original post by instinKtQuote:Original post by joanusdmentiaQuote:Original post by instinKtQuote:Original post by joanusdmentiaQuote:Original post by instinKt
A friend of mine was told there was no such thing as negative natural numbers.
Fixed.
Don't defend a lousy teacher who was too lazy to explain to the other kids what a negative number was!
Don't defend a smart-ass student who thinks he's cool by dropping 1 word and saying 'OMG MY TAECHER CANT DO MATH!'.....or at least I hope that's what happened [smile]
Nope, not what happened at all. I'm not saying she couldn't do math, just that she didn't want to explain to the other kids what a negative number was. Lazy teachers ftl.
Quote:Original post by Daerax
It is amusing that the lambda calculus would be mentioned in the same thread as the circumflex symbol (^). Since amusingly enough, the lambda notation is a direct descendent of the circumflex. The mutation from ^ to lambda is an interesting bit of trivia. I will tell the story if anyone is interested.
Quote:Original post by Daerax
It is amusing that the lambda calculus would be mentioned in the same thread as the circumflex symbol (^). Since amusingly enough, the lambda notation is a direct descendent of the circumflex. The mutation from ^ to lambda is an interesting bit of trivia. I will tell the story if anyone is interested.
^f(x) to denote a function whose application would result in f(x). Church modified it too ^x.f(x) for succintness.Quote:Original post by DaeraxQuote:Original post by instinKtQuote:Original post by joanusdmentiaQuote:Original post by instinKtQuote:Original post by joanusdmentiaQuote:Original post by instinKt
A friend of mine was told there was no such thing as negative natural numbers.
Fixed.
Don't defend a lousy teacher who was too lazy to explain to the other kids what a negative number was!
Don't defend a smart-ass student who thinks he's cool by dropping 1 word and saying 'OMG MY TAECHER CANT DO MATH!'.....or at least I hope that's what happened [smile]
Nope, not what happened at all. I'm not saying she couldn't do math, just that she didn't want to explain to the other kids what a negative number was. Lazy teachers ftl.
Likely she was never taught the concept of number well enough to be able to accurately articulate an explanation or even understand for herself what it means for a number to be negative. Which is not surprising considering how the qualifier negative do nothing but confuse the situation, they might as well be Dark numbers or Bad numbers.
Do you know what a negative number is?
