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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Precedent for use of =
Message-ID: <2152@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 09:24:48 EDT
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In article <3147@jhunix.UUCP> ins_apmj@jhunix.ARPA (Patrick M Juola) writes:
>	You've never seen the statements at the beginning of proofs, where
>they assign properties to variables....  If you want to assign to vector
>z the length of 1, you write "|z|=1."  Or at least I do.  How do you do it?

Much as I hate to continue this totally bogus discussion,
I really have to point out that |z|=1 is not any sort of
an assignment.  Usually it is seen in a context such as
"assume |z|=1; then..." which is a Boolean use of = as a
relational operator.

But this has nothing to do with C and should move to net.math,
if you really want to discuss meaning of symbols in mathematics.