Anduin Wrynn (
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From: Varian
Date: January 18th
At what point does math become literature? The last I looked, math didn't include letters that went alongside or with the numbers.
Date: January 18th
At what point does math become literature? The last I looked, math didn't include letters that went alongside or with the numbers.
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What are you trying to study?
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It was sent by someone requesting help with it. An irony that we then have to ask others about it afterwards.
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Those letters are simply a way to represent a value that's not known. For instance, if I said 2 + x = 4, and asked you to tell me what the value of X was, can you see how to determine it?
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It would be 2. But it's strange someone would use an x to begin with. Why not use a 2 ?
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When 2 + x = 4, x is 2. But if I were to say, for example, 2 + x = y, I have made a statement that y is always two greater than x, and now we can determine the value of x no matter what y turns out to be.
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Ha ha, it's true that you don't generally have to worry about advanced mathematics outside artillery, however.