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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.
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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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Are you in Trazyn the Infinites museum by chance, specifically as an exhibit.
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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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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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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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You forgot p, q
They can be handy and come before e
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I do trig for a living. I don't remember how to do long division at all.
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What set of poor life choices led you to that??
(Kidding)
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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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No, counting with fingers is bad. Count with phalanges instead. It's more efficient
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Just be sure to do it in binary. You gotta squeeze all of the value out of those phalanges.
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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.
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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.
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Drag is in pain when drag tries to fully extend the middle or ring finger with all others clasped.
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Drag has issues giving the 🖕?
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Yeah, it kinda hurts
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Damn dude, start doing some stretches unless it's some condition. Overtightened tendons can do that.
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Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x
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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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Exactly. That's why I refuse to do algebra.
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