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submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour 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 ] ).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x