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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

several alphabets, in fact

once you run out of Latin letters you start using Greek, Hebrew, Fraktur, etc

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait till you hear about the sickos using arabic numbers

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

The woke mind virus strikes again. I use English numbers like 7 LIKE A REAL AMERICAN 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

/s incase it wasn’t obvious

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or fancy letters, like the L in a Laplace transformation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And if that's not enough, you just straight up make up new symbols, like Nabla

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, because other science fields like linguistics would never just grab random letters and turn them upside down to repurpose them!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

əəəə... What do you mean? /j

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any upsidedown A in the set of all real characters used in academia would immediately illicit mathematical memories.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you mean ALL the upside up A?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, it means "for any" as in no matter which one you choose it will be correct.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_quantification

I usually used it as "for all", but its looks like "for any" is used too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I sit corrected. It's used as an arbitrary singular value within the proof, so for any always felt more appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like using Japanese kana in my homework. I'm learning the language, and it helps with calming down after the rage of "what the hell is this thing, that doesn't make any sense???"

As a result, i have to prove that the set ま is open.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I like that! I should start using Kana or cursive Cyrillic in my derivations to mess with the professors