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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.

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lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

Naw. Mathmaticians are frequently dyslexic.

It’s grammarians doing it backward!

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

3 a *

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Math articles on Wikipedia really need a prerequisite section.

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aussie.zone

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

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lemmy.ml

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

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

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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. 😅

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