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gxstoday at 7:13 PM0 repliesview on HN

Yes exactly

Math isn’t necessarily hard, but it’s incredibly dense

A simple statement like let f(x) be a continuous function can carry a lot of definitions

In that statement, if you missed the day in class where they covered continuous functions it might not even register that it’s a well defined term

And that’s the most over simplistic example I could think of

As a math major, I remember that being one of the first lessons I learned, that every single word could be carrying a lot of weight so to look things up in detail if I was ever struggling on a problem. One of the oldest entries in my memory.md file