• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    You guys are mathematicians not letterematicians.

    Also, I’m doing engineering shit and I still need to count using my fingers when calculating something on a multiplication table

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      9 days 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 ] ).

    • affiliate@lemmy.world
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      9 days 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

          • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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            9 days 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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              9 days ago

              Counting in binary is kind of possible with fingers

              Kind of? It’s quite possible and easy. I spent an afternoon counting syllables to create shitty poetry, and my fingers started counting on their own. Now I can count to 31 on 1 hand and it’s surprisingly useful.

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          9 days ago

          yeah cohomology can be particularly rough. look on the bright side though, at least you now have the tools to answer this question: