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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month 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] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You forgot p, q

They can be handy and come before e

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month 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] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Shareni 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Drag is in pain when drag tries to fully extend the middle or ring finger with all others clasped.

[–] Shareni 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Drag has issues giving the 🖕?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, it kinda hurts

[–] Shareni 1 points 1 month ago

Damn dude, start doing some stretches unless it's some condition. Overtightened tendons can do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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