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"Field" is a term I've heard come up again and again since college, in engineering-adjacent math. Over the years, I've occasionally looked it up and tried to un
by asxd 5y ago
"Field" is a term I've heard come up again and again since college, in engineering-adjacent math. Over the years, I've occasionally looked it up and tried to understand the importance, but I've never found any literature that made much sense to my admittedly short-sighted mind. I'm putting this bluntly (and sincerely), but this seems like a decent time to ask a question I should have asked long ago during college: What is a field and why do we care?
- thrtythreeforty 5y agoTo use C++ terminology, It's any type where operator+(), operator-(), operator*(), and operator/() are defined and behave as they do in rational numbers.