Spyke
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I can't believe that I understood this joke. I honestly can't even really remember when to use natural logs...

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lemmy.today

Did the subtitle transcriber think that "In" is a name or something? Why is the "I" capitalized?

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psycotica0reply
lemmy.ca

Unsure if.... fuck it I'll just blow it open.

The context is that loge has a shortcut called "ln", that is L N, said lawn, for "natural logarithm" (but in... Latin probably?)

And so the joke is that "ln" looks like "in" in this context.

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So this is really a font joke, stupid fonts that make the I and l look the same.

I always set my defaults to Tahoma for this reason.

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In several mathematical notation systems, the most important being APL/J, programming languages inspired to codify "tools of thought" notation as code, the log function is ln. 10&log is base 10 log.

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Kairosreply
lemmy.today

Yes I know the joke. I was just pointing out that the "I" in "in" seems to be capitolized for no reason.

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lemmy.ca

...it's not a capital "i", it's a lowercase L. Thus the joke; it's "I'm LN" instead of the usual "I'm in".

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Kairosreply
lemmy.today

Yes I know the joke. It's an "I" in the subtitles I've watched the show twice over.

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I believe it was edited to fit the joke. If not, yeah I dunno. The context in the scene isn't ambiguous or anything, so if its like that in the show's subtitles, its likely an error.

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Second thing is Euler's Product Formula, which is just amazing in it's definition.

Zeta(s) = Sum(over all integers) [ 1 / n^s^ ] = Product(over all prime numbers) [ 1 / 1 - p^-s^ ]

That "over all prime numbers" part gets me every time, and yet the statement is provably true

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I almost get this one, but I'm not sure why LOGe would be In

Just don't speak enough maths lol

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felsiqreply
piefed.zip

ln is just shorthand for the natural logarithm, which is log base e. In case it’s not clear from the picture, it’s written LN (but lowercase) in math

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MBM
lemmings.world

Mathematicians just write loge as log tbh (because log10 is irrelevant)

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