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    11 months ago

    Right, but if you look in the field of probabilities, specifically when expanding binomial distributions, you go increasing powers with one and decreasing powers with the other.

    ax^4 + bx^3y + cx2y2 + dxy^3 + ey^4

    That’s why it makes sense to me to read it a^2 + 2ab + b^2