Post #3545272
2026-06-24 20:02 UTC
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Where I come from, that’s read as “x to the [power of] minus one”. “x minus one” is, well, x - 1. Not the same thing at all.
(I admit, my chances of deciphering what you meant might not have been all that high even if you’d used the correct phrasing, but without it, the chance was zero.)
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@Miller@lemmy.world 2026-06-24 20:21
It was a shorthand he used, he wrote it as a superscript, it must of been his own, it was useful in terms of statistics analysis.