• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 hours ago

    Some forms of programming syntax, although there are the fringe cases where an equation (or function in programming) is represented by a symbol in conjunction with a parentheses input.

    For example:

    y(x) = 2*x+3

    5+y(1) = 10, as 1 is substituted in for x in the prior equation.

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      6 hours ago

      And in some languages a number can be used as a name of a variable or a function, so it can be anything really