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minus-squareMiller@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·3 months agoMy old statistics lecturer would write x-¹ as shorthand meaning everything that is not x, I thought it was in more common usage but perhaps not. I know it more generally means the reciprocal, he just expected you to know which he meant by context.
minus-squarexep@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-23 months agoThat is not a great notation for x-complement, considering unambiguous widely accepted notation already exists, such as x'
My old statistics lecturer would write x-¹ as shorthand meaning everything that is not x, I thought it was in more common usage but perhaps not. I know it more generally means the reciprocal, he just expected you to know which he meant by context.
That is not a great notation for x-complement, considering unambiguous widely accepted notation already exists, such as
x'