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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Greek can be terrifying

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Greek can be terrifying

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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    When you advance so much in mathematics that pi starts to mean probability, and you run out of greek letters and had to use Hebrew ones.

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      Of course the day after reading this, I encounter it for the first time, in my ML class.

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    Honestly maths gets easier with letters because there is a lot less maths in it, at least in the traditional sense. Lot harder to make a numerical mistake.

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      a lot less maths

      There’s more maths, but less arithmetic.

    • oce 🐆
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      Ah, who knew quantum field theory was easier than arithmetic.

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      But u can use a calculator to bypass numerical mistakes

      • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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        Not the ones I make.

      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
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        Calculators are still very error prone. It is very easy to press the wrong button or miss a digit without noticing.

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        You just need better calculator to operate on greek letters like Mathematica

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    I can speak Greek and I’m still terrified when math speaks Greek

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    Mussolini?? Bushes??? i missed an important day in history class i guess. anyone share notes?

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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      Italy tried to invade Greece during WW2. That’s how the Italian army got its reputation for being I-tier.

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    σκατά

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
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      Tensile stress x heat conductivity x the angle alpha x shear stress (or a time constant) x the rate of change of the angle alpha.

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        There are:

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        and you still chose x.

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          I didn’t do “*” cause I’m on a phone and I didn’t want to mess with accidentally italicizing my whole sentence. Everything else but “x” is a special character that I can’t get to in a short time.

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            You can do \* to prevent it from italicizing stuff. Also, if you’re using Android, there’s an app called Unexpected Keyboard that makes every reasonably-useful key reachable in a few taps.

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