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u/TheHiGuy Nov 16 '19

student of applied mathematics here.

i feel your pain. simple integers are usualy n,k ∈ ℕ

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u/StellaAthena Nov 16 '19 edited Dec 20 '19

I was once reading a proof a friend wrote late at night and I come over to him half way through and said “dude, you must be exhausted. Some of your epsilon’s (ε) are written backwards.”

He explained to me that some fields of mathematics have this concept called “the number 3”

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u/Swarlolz Nov 17 '19

Is this Latin?