On 18/11/20 5:29 pm, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Glenn Linderman writes:
> Mathematics never came up with separate symbols for equality and
> assignment.
Mathematics doesn't need them, until we come to an age where we do
mathematics on algorithms.
Even then, when mathematicians describe algorithms they often
use subscripts to disinguish different values of a variable on
different iterations, effectively making them into different
variables. So they still don't need a symbol for assignment.
--
Greg
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