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Random internet people explaining math better then math teacher (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/math

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A maths major could point out edges cases where the maths terminology works but the computer code break, but for broad-strokes purposes they’re the same.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what? they're just for loops (actually they're better described as reduce operators, but those are not so friendly either). if you mean infinite bounds, it's just not finitely terminating

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If the bounds are infinite then it's defined by a limit of partial sums, which isn't the same as a non-terminating algorithm. It would be pretty tough if we couldn't evaluate limits. It's also important to understand limits as being a precisely defined operation as opposed to a way of saying "and so on."