• @prayer
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    229 months ago

    Right, but if you look in the field of probabilities, specifically when expanding binomial distributions, you go increasing powers with one and decreasing powers with the other.

    ax^4 + bx^3y + cx2y2 + dxy^3 + ey^4

    That’s why it makes sense to me to read it a^2 + 2ab + b^2