I stared at the square of the square root of the squared square root for far too long…
that I almost missed the obvious E = / * A. Where would the field of mathematics be without that good old E = / * A? :-D
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stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Such an strange error. I’m not saying it’s AI but here’s my prompt:
Generate a picture of someone thinking and, to symbolize their thought process, show math symbols and equations around their head, these symbols have to include the quadratic formula
Here’s the pic:
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 day ago
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Check out this bad boy.
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 day ago
m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I suspect it’s an OCR error.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 days ago
I’m guessing a typesetter was too lazy to add a different-size font and although they knew how to type “√”, didn’t realize “²” is in Unicode too. They added a horizontal line as separate graphics to extend the square root symbol but only realized too late the whole thing is in a fraction: maybe someone reminded them and they misinterpreted the advice, or just decided not to split the text box to put the nominator higher.
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Can you even do that “proper” square root with unicode? Or is it always just that single character?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 day ago
Unicode isn’t meant to replace all typesetting like LaTeX. For example, I can’t make proper horizontal fractions (unlike ⅝, perhaps) that are normal in my part of the world because that would be too much scope creep.
An imperfect solution is adding
̅ U+0305 COMBINING OVERLINEabove everything. For example, it does not sit at consistent height (√4̅a̅c̅) and Windows renders it incorrectly (centered to the right edge of the character, not its center).This is how I’d render the numerator using Unicode only: 𝑏² ± √4̅𝑎̅𝑐̅
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That makes about a million times more sense