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Topic: Math tho

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc started this discussion 1 hour ago #136,487

You know how the distance formula is really just the square root of the dot product of a vector with itself, but you can define an inner product space using an integral since integration is linear and then find the distance between two polynomials?

What does that actually mean tho, conceptually? Like how does one imagine what that means for there to be a distance between 5x^2-8 and 8x^4+2x^2 that’s just one number?

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc (OP) double-posted this 1 hour ago, 7 minutes later[^] [v] #1,448,905

Like you do the thing and it works and that’s cool, and you get the answer. But what does the answer mean? I mean, it’s a number.
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