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I had a coworker try to use "isomorphic" to mean "when given the same inputs and environment, always produces the same outputs", then accused me of pedantry for
by scubbo 3y ago
I had a coworker try to use "isomorphic" to mean "when given the same inputs and environment, always produces the same outputs", then accused me of pedantry for pointing out that misusing a word with a very clear definition was likely to cause confusion.
- shaklee3 3y agoI think they mean idempotent
- scubbo 3y agoWhoops, you're right, I brain farted the wrong word. To be clear, though, they were still wrong. `f(x)=2x` has the property they described of consistently giving the same input for a given input (if you pass in 1, it will always output 2), but it is not idempotent because f(f(x)) does not, in general, equal f(x).