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affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ] ).

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    • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • 2deck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You forgot p, q

        They can be handy and come before e

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

      (Kidding)

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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      • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x

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      • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Atlas_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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