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Intuition is mostly an internalized notion of convention, and I don’t think that we can appeal to intuition to resolve much. For students learning division, th
by klodolph 6y ago
Intuition is mostly an internalized notion of convention, and I don’t think that we can appeal to intuition to resolve much.
For students learning division, the fact that 1/0 is undefined is not an intuitive result and must be learned. This is their first time encountering something which is “not defined”.
- Tainnor 6y agoWe'll just have to disagree about this. I think intuition is incredibly important both in mathematics and in programming.
- klodolph 6y agoWe agree that intuition is important, I think we disagree about where it comes from. Intuition comes from experience. A programming language is “intuitive” because it conforms to your previous experiences with programming languages.