If you said “if it is a horse it has hooves” you can infer “all horses have hooves” but not that “all hooves creatures are horses”.
Otoh if you said “iff a polygon has 3 sides, it is a triangle” you can infer that all polygons has 3 sides it is a triangle and that there are no other ways to make triangles.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Iffs in the wild make me happy.
imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
Are “Iffs” a thing? I’ve been missing out.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
iff is the shorthand for “if and only if”.
If you said “if it is a horse it has hooves” you can infer “all horses have hooves” but not that “all hooves creatures are horses”.
Otoh if you said “iff a polygon has 3 sides, it is a triangle” you can infer that all polygons has 3 sides it is a triangle and that there are no other ways to make triangles.
imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
Cool, TIL