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Outside of formally defined abstract systems, "invariant" almost always means "usual"
by xkcd-sucks 9y ago
Outside of formally defined abstract systems, "invariant" almost always means "usual"
- vorg 9y agoAnd "impossible" means "difficult". I believe this feature of natural language is called hyperbole, and its study is part of the Linguistics subfield of Pragmatics.
- nonbel 9y agoI am a native English speaker and have never heard someone use "unchangeable" or "invariable" to mean anything other than the correct meaning: "not variable; not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant."