• @Maalus
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    283 months 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

    • @Buddahriffic
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      183 months 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 ] ).

      • Fushuan [he/him]
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        103 months ago

        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.

        • 2deck
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          53 months ago

          You forgot p, q

          They can be handy and come before e

    • jawa21
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      93 months ago

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

      • @thesporkeffect
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        13 months ago

        What set of poor life choices led you to that??

        (Kidding)

    • @affiliate
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      73 months 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

        • @CrazyLikeGollum
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          23 months ago

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

          • Dragon Rider (drag)
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            13 months ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              13 months ago

              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.

      • @someacnt_
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        23 months ago

        Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x

        • @affiliate
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          33 months ago

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

    • @Atlas_
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      13 months ago

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