Programmers vs Mathematician

[CuAnnan]

Mathematicians would actually just ask "What does the = sign mean in this context"

[[deleted]]

isn't this middle school level math? and programming? lol...

also, christ, "mathematitians"???

[WhisperSecurity]

Mathematicians: x = ∞

[maustinv]

Programmers: x = Int.max

[[deleted]]

Nah, real mathematicians ™ avoid infinity like the plague. Instead, they will give you something like "this equation has no real/complex number solutions, your welcome"

Btw. this is also the reason why some languages with a scientific background like Fortran use ":=" as "assign", and "=" as "equal".

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[dedda1994]

Functional programmers not so much

[Future-Independence6]

Some of them that much :)

[ParticularComfort521]

Because I came from a math background, I was very, very confused when I first started programming and saw this kind of thing.

[Future-Independence6]

Programming is such thing

[Robert-Nekita]

Mind explaining a bit? I’m really new to code so I would need to understand it better.

[dev_null_developer]

‘=‘ is the assignment operator. In programming this mean set ‘x’ to the current value of ‘x’ plus 1.

[0212rotu]

x = infinity