• chortle_tortle@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    Mathematicians will in one breath tell you they aren’t fractions, then in the next tell you dz/dx = dz/dy * dy/dx

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      Not very good mathematicians if they tell you they aren’t fractions.

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      3 days ago

      Have you seen a mathematician claim that? Because there’s entire algebra they created just so it becomes a fraction.