#math notation

[then-ponder]

Rate your favorite logic notation

[risotto38]

an example of Kinskan math! this is a quartic equation that I attempted to figure out

[edwardos]

You know, getting bad info from the Minecraft wiki (the "good" one) was one thing, but I think the real change that would have stopped me from suffering for hours over an equation to solve Noticeably Beta 1.8's experience level problems would have been if somebody in Mojang had just put a couple of "convert experience values" functions in the code. Something the developer in place could use to convert the two kinds of int units. Experience orbs as you kill mobs in the update loop just convert to levels and remove remainders on the fly.

That bastard of a codebase made me stretch to decipher this:

[rosalilis-randomness]

Meme that my math teacher put on our lessons:

[greenouillee]

Problem: Maths (& Physics) have too many cases where a symbol is used, confusingly, to mean multiple different things, leading to ambiguity and headaches. Sensible solution: Use a key or just simply clarify the meaning in context, so v here is velocity, or v here is an arbitrary vector, or v here is specifically final velocity, or v here is the harmonic function for the complex part of a complex function f(z) for the purposes of the Cauchy-Riemann & Laplacian equations, or v here is the potential V(x) differentiated with respect to time (yes i have seen this once, it was disgusting). My solution: add new characters. invent new scripts. steal syllabaries, acquire abjads, and abduct alphabets until we have enough squiggly lines to give literally everything its own unique symbol. This will help nobody and ruin everything. I will not rest until I am doing theoretical physics with these bad boys:

[Image ID: The 120 base Sitelen Pona of Toki Pona. They are simple, black and white, cartoonish, almost child-like drawings that act as logographic characters for the base words of the conlang Toki Pona. Each one has its corresponding name/word in Latin script beneath. End ID] Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[mathhombre]

XKCD Guide to Notation

Somehow had never seen this.

[unnonexistence]

95% of math brainteasers that go viral are just bad notation and it drives me up the wall

[then-ponder]

One aspect about being a mathematician in a physics class, is that people will say something nebulous like radians are a unit less and in the back of my head I have to be like no it’s actually meter per meter. But I’m not allowed to say that

[michaelrotonal]

cursed number notation 16

1 = A

2 = AB

3 = B

4 = BA

5 = ABC

6 = BC

7 = BCA

8 = AC

9 = C

10 = CA

11 = ACB

12 = CB

13 = CBA

[stemgirlchic]

just sent this to my best friend; let's see if we're still friends 100 questions later (we will be; ily <3)

Hey ya like MATH? ya like quizzes?? wanna take a math quiz with NO calculations, just fodder for murder if you share it with friends?

here's a mathematical conventions survey --- or, 100 questions to cause murder among mathematicians!!! Join the chaos!!!

[reductionisms]

math yaoi - ring theory from yaoizine 5!

[tom-bombadil-is-transgender]

it is so crazy that two guys just happened to separately invent calculus at the same time if I was gottfried wilhelm leibniz I would be pissed off beyond belief and I'd also probably try to kill isaac newton in his sleep

[lilacandladybugs]

I doodle smiley faces on my homework because im a happy little fella but my professor handed it back and put an unhappy face under my happy face???? Like???

[lipshits-continuous]

Are all people who do functional analysis allergic to using im(T) and ker(T) to denote the image and the kernel of an operator T or is it just my lecturer?

[proof-by-intimidation]

thought it was a printing error. Nope, it's part of the notation.

[shapefrog27]

Lowercase xi is actually a biblically accurate angle and we math students bow down in its presence.