The virgin wiki Glossary of mathematical symbols (EN) VS the chad Liste mathematischer Symbole (DE)

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Muehe@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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Comparison of the English and German language wiki page for math symbols.

en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glossary_of_ma…

and

de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liste_mathemat…

To be fair, if you go to the linked “List of logic symbols” article that has a table with Latex, Unicode, and even HTML codes. But it’s only for logic symbols, no page for all mathematic symbols on the English Wikipedia as far as I can see, so no quick Ctrl+F searching for unicode/latex. :( And most other subsections don’t even have a link to such a list.

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Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
This is often the case for engineering or maths topics. The english one is just yapping about stuff, while the German is like “Here’s the formula you wanted my son”

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- FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Danke, meine fuhrer
  
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  - Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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Jack@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The English articles would be so much easier to use with

bullets

sortable tables

numerals (1, 2, 3rd, 4th)

instead of paragraphs of wasteful and hard-to-scan prose, and the spelling-out of numbers 0-9, unfortunately old publishing manuals-of-style rules are mostly used.

At least sentence-case headings and sometimes logical quotation’s used. I’d prefer Wikipiedia use Wiktionary’s lowercase article names for non-proper-nouns.
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- Muehe@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  To be fair the article is called a glossary, so I guess it’s understandable. But if you click the switch language button it brings you to the German one with the table. Guess if we want a real equivalent in English somebody needs to create a new article for that.
  
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