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[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I really need to refresh my set theory symbols. I haven't taken that class in... oh no... Almost 30 years

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

∪ is for "union", aka "disjunction for sets", ∈ is for "includes", ⊂is for "subset", don't confuse ⊂ with ⊆, which also allows for both operands to be the same set.

Difference between ∈ and ⊂ is that former takes an element and a set as operands, latter takes two sets.

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What does physical exercise of bdsm leaning bottoms have to do with this

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't believe the current paper defines a way to describe "bdsm leaning", but for "bottoms" you can easily define x, x ∈ H, such that there exists at least one h, h ∈ H, f(h,x) > 0 and no h', h' ∈ H, f(x, h') > 0. If the second condition is not met, conventionally x is regarded to be a "swap", if the first one is not met, we have a "top". Hope that helps.