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[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

In my experience with maths, there's a whole bunch of different conventions all over the place, so it might've genuinely been how they were taught, even if you were taught differently...

Yeah, that's my experience too. When we did this in school we always defined from which side we were approaching the function.