I'm so very, very tired of tech coopting rigorous mathematical terms.
This also happens to "numbers", "integers" and such, because in the computer universe don't exist out math, only a subset(?) variation(?) of it
> coopt: to appropriate as one's own; preempt.
The term existed for some time before programming if that's your source of confusion. Now it is a twisted and ambiguous version of itself.
This also happens to "numbers", "integers" and such, because in the computer universe don't exist out math, only a subset(?) variation(?) of it