As a small kid I learned i = i +1, before any maths teacher told me it couldn’t.
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
I don’t get the “equality and reduction” part. Can someone explain?
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.
He could ask for clarification and discuss word definitions if the situation indicates a misunderstanding.
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.
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Feeling nervous then giving shrek head?
Breakfast of champions!