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I feel "Numbers" are pretty hyped-up!

• GTP 5y ago
  Going back to your original comment, if I say "let's talk about linear functions" and then all I say also applies to a more general context, eg. polynomials, then it is fine. But if I say "let's talk about polynomials" and then all I say only applies to linear functions then it is wrong. Your sarcastic comment falls under the first case, the article discussed here falls under the second.
  • nautilius 5y ago
    I wish you had read my original comment, where, let me repeat it a second time for you, I state that the author writes about how to approximate a 'function in the laymen sense of the word'. And that's what he does. Nowhere does he bring hype into it; no one reading about how to approximate a simple y=f(x) will misread this. My guess is that you read the website like you read my comment, if at all, otherwise we wouldn't be having this ridiculous conversation. renewiltord's comment is spot on and much better phrased than I could have done it.
    • GTP 5y ago
      I got that you say that the author is talking about a 'function in the laymen sense of the world', what I'm saying is that this might not be clear from reading that webpage without some prior knowledge of the cases when this will fail.
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