• @[email protected]
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    514 months ago

    When you advance so much in mathematics that pi starts to mean probability, and you run out of greek letters and had to use Hebrew ones.

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      34 months ago

      Of course the day after reading this, I encounter it for the first time, in my ML class.

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    184 months ago

    Honestly maths gets easier with letters because there is a lot less maths in it, at least in the traditional sense. Lot harder to make a numerical mistake.

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    174 months ago

    I can speak Greek and I’m still terrified when math speaks Greek

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      94 months ago

      Italy tried to invade Greece during WW2. That’s how the Italian army got its reputation for being I-tier.

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      134 months ago

      Tensile stress x heat conductivity x the angle alpha x shear stress (or a time constant) x the rate of change of the angle alpha.

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          04 months ago

          I didn’t do “*” cause I’m on a phone and I didn’t want to mess with accidentally italicizing my whole sentence. Everything else but “x” is a special character that I can’t get to in a short time.

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            You can do \* to prevent it from italicizing stuff. Also, if you’re using Android, there’s an app called Unexpected Keyboard that makes every reasonably-useful key reachable in a few taps.