• affiliate@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    i was in a group call with 6 mathematicians, and it came time to order our names in the paper we were writing. in math papers, the names are always ordered alphabetically. we had to pull up a picture of the alphabet because none of us could remember which way the letters are ordered.

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      4 hours ago

      memorizing the order of the alphabet would take precious real estate that could instead hold a couple more digits of pi

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      4 hours 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