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I was caught out by "number sentence" at first, I'm used to hearing the word "expression". Is this a re-emergence of the new maths?
by NAFV_P 13y ago
I was caught out by "number sentence" at first, I'm used to hearing the word "expression".
Is this a re-emergence of the new maths?
- judk 13y agoA number sentence is an equation. A number phrase is an expression. This has been true for over a thousand years.
- NAFV_P 13y agoThat's very interesting, because I wasn't taught that in school.
- bane 13y agoI agree, I've never heard that phrase and I have a degree in Mathematics.
- NAFV_P 13y agoCheers... I am an amateur mathematician, but these days I focus more on imperative programming languages. I tend to use the term expression for both equations and expressions, since in computing an expression returns a value of any type, not just numerical types.