RiderExMachina on Mythryl: “This thread made me realize that the we’re taught math seems to be…”

This thread made me realize that the we’re taught math seems to be that = is “causes”, or “X+Y causes Z” At some point, maybe when when I started programming, my brain made the connection that the real meaning of = is “is”

Felgraf@felgraf.bsky.social

And at that moment, I felt like my brain had been struck by lightning, because it all snapped into place. Because of *how engineers* tend to be taught, and how they tend to USE equations, he was thinking of the equations as *causitive*. Left side *causes* right side.

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