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https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile programmers will be like, fools, clearly 2(n) is a function 😏

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't know a single language that lets you use a name starting with a number for anything off the top of my head

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Kinda. You can't define a name, but you can get the compiler to interpret literals as a function. If you have a Num instance for (Integer -> Integer) where,

fromInteger i = \x -> x * i

the compiler can interpret integer literals as functions like so

x = 2(5) :: Integer