How I imagine mathematicians...

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FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 70 pts · 251d (6 replies)

What they actually see:

convolution
cross product
dot product
multiplication

taiyang@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 251d

The irony is that this meme works in reverse for that. At least, in order of mind blowing as I refreshed my memory, it goes multiplication (very easy), dot (scalars easy), cross (vectors medium) and convolution (integrals hard).

In fact, I never did the later two but convolution looks fun.

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d (2 replies)

I see multiplication in code, Cartesian product, multiplication, multiplication.

I might not count as a mathematician though. If the * was supposed to be convolution the a should have been cursive.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 251d (1 reply)

In latex if you are using * you better mean convolution

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d

Yes (actually \ast though?), but unless you're a maniac in LaTeX latin letters referring to variables in a math environment are cursive (actually a math font I think). Therefore if I am reading a single sentence that may or may not have been made using TeX I tend towards not if variables are in a standard font.

betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 251d (1 reply)
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FiskFisk33@startrek.website · 4 pts · 250d

hurr durr maybe it's a vector in ℝ

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 251d (4 replies)

it's funny, because I always imagined them giggling about typing 8008135 into calculators.

jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 251d (2 replies)

Surely you mean 5318008.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Naw. Mathmaticians are frequently dyslexic.

It’s grammarians doing it backward!

mercano@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d

Ah, that’s how we wound up with reverse Polish notation.

3 a *

AmericanEconomicThinkTank@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d

Excuse me, but self respecting mathematicians calculate it properly.

Now let's see, it was Dolly Parton had...

akilou@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 251d

3(a)

someacnt@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 251d (1 reply)
sundray@lemmus.org · 10 pts · 251d

Math articles on Wikipedia really need a prerequisite section.

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 10 pts · 251d

a+a+a

hperrin@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 251d (2 replies)

a, three times.

angrystego@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d

Shaka, when the walls fell.

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 251d

threa

Kraiden@piefed.social · 8 pts · 251d (6 replies)

madness. How am I supposed to know if 36 = 36 or 36 = 8?

lvxferre@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 251d (2 replies)
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psud@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 248d (1 reply)

Lots of zeros in that due to a=b (before looking at the spoiler text)

lvxferre@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 248d
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Ephera@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 251d (1 reply)

Do you mean 36 = 18 there? Otherwise, I'm very confused. 😅

mhi@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 251d

Doesn't make a difference as 18 = 8

DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d

Because the things like 3a are only for variables, not numbers.

Jerkface@piefed.social · 7 pts · 251d

0a^0^ + 3a^1^

IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d

Chess Grandmasters: a3

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d (2 replies)

AAA I guess

dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 251d (1 reply)

That's A³

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d

i just want to know how to write it as screaming

psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 251d

b

Because 3a = b

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 251d (1 reply)

FYI for the alt text: that's Vince McMahon.

Ephera@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 251d

Yeah, when I found the meme template, it did say that, too, but I wasn't sure if that information is actually helpful to someone reading alt text. Personally, I only know the guy from the memes. 😅

jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 251d

Za.

hperrin@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 251d
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