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tbenst
on Nov 30, 2022
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Why I am learning category theory
Arguably from a mathematical perspective, the choice of ‘+’ is poor as it implies that the operation is commutative when it’s only associative. Julia used “foo” * “bar” for this reason:
https://groups.google.com/g/julia-dev/c/4K6S7tWnuEs/m/RF6x-f...
Koshkin
on Nov 30, 2022
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Then the length() function would be a logarithm...
Koshkin
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(For the benefit of those who did not get the joke: a logarithm is a homomorphism from ‘*’ to ‘+’.)
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