Comment on lab toys

• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ] ).

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  • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • 2deck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You forgot p, q

      They can be handy and come before e

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• jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

    (Kidding)

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• affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x

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    • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨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:

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• Atlas_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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