17 Nov
2020
17 Nov
'20
10:17 p.m.
On 18/11/20 5:29 pm, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Glenn Linderman writes:
Mathematics never came up with separate symbols for equality and assignment.
Mathematics doesn't need them, until we come to an age where we do mathematics on algorithms.
Even then, when mathematicians describe algorithms they often use subscripts to disinguish different values of a variable on different iterations, effectively making them into different variables. So they still don't need a symbol for assignment. -- Greg