• abcd@feddit.de
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      As a software developer this is a 100%* correct operation.

      *From a logical perspective in C-like pseudocode. In reality you may have to add a „;“, a line break or other line delimiters if someone from Stackoverflow reads this

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewriting

      …if that’s too heady do note that if you have a heap of four marshmallows and a heap of five marshmallows then that’s the same as having a heap of five marshmallows and a heap of four marshmallows. To have a heap of nine marshmallows, you first have to turn them into a single heap. That’s reducing the number of heaps from two to one and that’s a hand-wavy way to justify the term.

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    He could ask for clarification and discuss word definitions if the situation indicates a misunderstanding.

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    There really are few good math instructors out there. They tend to be those who have intuitions about the subject who can’t interact with people who weren’t born with them.