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MATH.13:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
| Text-invited mistake | Repair |
| Swap components but ignore their different costs. | Apply the transformation to the complete criterion and identify whether the data remain fixed. |
| Infer a symmetric individual solution from a symmetric solution set. | Establish uniqueness or retain the whole transformed family of solutions. |
| Rotate a law while silently keeping changed initial data as the same problem. | Track the transformed initial or boundary values. |
| Demand an invariant output when the task needs an equivariant position or direction. | Specify and apply the output action. |
| Normalize an input and lose the original coordinate relation. | Retain the transformation needed to return the answer or expose the remaining ambiguity. |
| Infer physical conservation from an equivariant update alone. | Derive the quantity’s change along the actual dynamics or numerical step. |