• @affiliate
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    143 hours ago

    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.

    • @pyre
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      52 hours ago

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

    • @Maalus
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      63 hours ago

      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

      • jawa21
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        32 hours ago

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

      • @affiliate
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        43 hours ago

        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

      • @Atlas_
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        121 minutes ago

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