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[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago

i was in a group call with 6 mathematicians, and it came time to order our names in the paper we were writing. in math papers, the names are always ordered alphabetically. we had to pull up a picture of the alphabet because none of us could remember which way the letters are ordered.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago

memorizing the order of the alphabet would take precious real estate that could instead hold a couple more digits of pi

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Are you in Trazyn the Infinites museum by chance, specifically as an exhibit.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

You guys are mathematicians not letterematicians.

Also, I'm doing engineering shit and I still need to count using my fingers when calculating something on a multiplication table

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

As a math guy, obviously the order of the letters is: x, y, z, a, b, c, then the rest of them in whatever order I currently feel like.

As a CS guy, obviously the order is sort( [ set of all letters ] ).

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

You forgot i, j, k

It's actually x, y, z, a, b, c, i, j, k, e, and then whatever, they don't matter.

[-] 2deck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

You forgot p, q

They can be handy and come before e

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 month ago

I do trig for a living. I don't remember how to do long division at all.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What set of poor life choices led you to that??

(Kidding)

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

exactly!

and i am always in favor of counting with fingers. we were given them for a reason, might as well make the most of them. counting is hard enough as it is

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago

No, counting with fingers is bad. Count with phalanges instead. It's more efficient

[-] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Just be sure to do it in binary. You gotta squeeze all of the value out of those phalanges.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

That's impossible, because it would require tracking each digit at once. Counting in binary is kind of possible with fingers, but not with phalanges.

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Counting in binary is kind of possible with fingers

Kind of? It's quite possible and easy. I spent an afternoon counting syllables to create shitty poetry, and my fingers started counting on their own. Now I can count to 31 on 1 hand and it's surprisingly useful.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz -3 points 1 month ago

Drag is in pain when drag tries to fully extend the middle or ring finger with all others clasped.

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Drag has issues giving the ๐Ÿ–•?

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 month ago
[-] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Damn dude, start doing some stretches unless it's some condition. Overtightened tendons can do that.

[-] someacnt_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

yeah cohomology can be particularly rough. look on the bright side though, at least you now have the tools to answer this question:

[-] Atlas_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Exactly. That's why I refuse to do algebra.

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