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For my personal benefit, could you [JD] explain the motivation behind your question? I studied groups (and rings and fields) last year, and will study them further starting next month, but although I get reasonably high marks on my assignments by mechanically following the rules to answer questions (a state of affairs that Richard Feynman would not have liked), my appreciation of the topic is hindered by not having the slightest clue what groups are for, what good they do anyone, or what makes them interesting. Card Zero (talk) 11:37, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Is our article Tilde#Mathematics well-written, do you think, and are you saying "approximately equals" with this particular twiddle, or something else? I have a faint memory that it can also be used like a variable for relations, so it would just mean "relates to (in some way not yet defined)". Card Zero (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
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For my personal benefit, could you [JD] explain the motivation behind your question? I studied groups (and rings and fields) last year, and will study them further starting next month, but although I get reasonably high marks on my assignments by mechanically following the rules to answer questions (a state of affairs that Richard Feynman would not have liked), my appreciation of the topic is hindered by not having the slightest clue what groups are for, what good they do anyone, or what makes them interesting. Card Zero (talk) 11:37, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
Is our article Tilde#Mathematics well-written, do you think, and are you saying "approximately equals" with this particular twiddle, or something else? I have a faint memory that it can also be used like a variable for relations, so it would just mean "relates to (in some way not yet defined)". Card Zero (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2021 (UTC)