Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.
Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it
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Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.
Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it
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Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.
âŠI donât know why thatâs surprising to me, since theyâre just Unicode, but it is.
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How did you italisize an emoji?
Thatâs a fine transformation.
I just checked and every single textbook I own that contains a reference to this transformation uses an image of a sheep. Sadly all of my textbooks are in English. If I had any relevant texts in German or Spanish I doubt that they would makes this connection.
On an less relevant note one of the books introduces the idea of change of basis with a joke about labeling axes and has several different types of ax with corresponding labels attached and I find that to be a much worse joke.
I guess because itâs absurd youâll remember it easier.
Kind of how people can recall a deck of cards playing placing people doing an action to an object in familiar places. Itâs the absurdity that makes you remember.
In English the tool for chopping down trees is spelled axe. Just letting you know since youâre multilingual and I assume English isnât your first language.
English is my first language. Ax and axe are used interchangeably. Theyâre both correct.
Hey, itâs the only thing I remember from linear algebra! Thatâs the longest living sheep ever.
He done shown me shorned sheared sheep!
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
âAs verbs the difference between sheared and shorn is that sheared is past tense of shear while shorn is past tense of shear.â
Thanks, internet, youâre very useful.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
At least its not read and read
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
There once was a comment I read it made me get up out of bed In the toilet I peed Til my bits startâ to bleed And from that day I no longer read
ShepherdPie@midwest.social âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Potato potato.
dogsnest@lemmy.world âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
A sheer waste of time, you say?
jaybone@lemmy.world âš5â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Shiela sheared sheep by the sheep shorn.