Normals
It occurs to me how absolutely insane it is that in mathematics, we use the word "normal" for such wildly different concepts as
- Normal subgroup
- Normal to (orthogonality)
- Normal form
- Normal distribution
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It occurs to me how absolutely insane it is that in mathematics, we use the word "normal" for such wildly different concepts as