Comment on Euler's Meme
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoOne of your precepts is flawed. f is not a meme any more than the word “all” is in “all your base are belong to us”. f is defined by text within the overall meme, but while it is part of the meme, it is not the meme itself, as it lacks the content of the remainder of the meme. Your precept is like saying “9 is prime, because it is the prime number ‘19’”. 9 is not prime. It is part of the representation of the number 19. f is not the meme. It is part of the context which defines the meme.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What? No, the image explicitly says f is a meme.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I could me wrong, but I’m fairly sure that, while ‘f’ is a function, ‘f(x)’ is the function’s output, not the function itself. So f(x) is a meme, because function f’s output is a meme. The function itself is a mathematical operation.
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yep. Just read it again. You’re absolutely correct.