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		ndriscoll 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pipelining might be my favorite programming langua... There are some math books out there that use (x)f. My understanding is (some) algebraists tried to make it a thing ~60 years ago but it never really caught on.

hollerith 11 months ago [–]

There are, but they leave out the parens and use context to distinguish function application from multiplication.

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