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[–] RandomWalker@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Look at this shmuck, using the supremum of a continuous function on a closed interval when it clearly achieves a maximum. I bet they’ll feel real embarrassed about that one when they’re falling asleep years from now.

[–] myslsl@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Christ, it's like people just don't even give a fuck about the extreme value theorem anymore?

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I get you are joking, but I've seen many literature just using sup for maximum. Maybe for consistency or laziness, idk why