• NielsBohron
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    241 year ago

    I’m very pedantic about spelling and homophones, I love puns, and I took an upper-division Discrete Math class in college, and yet I still never realized that “discrete” and “discreet” are two different words.

    • squiblet
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      51 year ago

      I associate discrete with physics and discreet with literature.

      • NielsBohron
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        81 year ago

        No, I get it now, especially as I teach quantum mechanics; I just never noticed that it wasn’t the same spelling until your comment (or, more likely, I subconsciously chalked it up to a difference between American and British spelling)