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[–] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fuck! Im 40 and this is the first time I understand the sigma sign!! Thank you!

Couldnt they just show this to me at 7th grade or something when i already learned pascal?

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

The sigma sign shows up as "sum" quite a bit but I didn't know about the for-loop thing.

[–] SapphicFemme@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I was into coding (javascript) but nope they are unwilling to find creative new ways to help teach people, gotta be a nonseical "one size fits all"