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[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 months ago

It's a US vs UK (and probably others) distinction. The ( ) are almost never called brackets in the US, unless it's a regional thing I'm not aware of. Also the [ ] didn't get used in any math classes I was in the US up through calculus except for matrices.

[-] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Interesting! Nobody at my institute is a native English speaker. They're from several European and some Asian and south American countries.

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