• Zagorath
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    2961 month ago

    Fake and gay.

    No way the engineer corrects the mathematician for using j instead of i.

    • LeFrog
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      531 month ago

      As an engineer I fully agree. Engineers¹ aren’t even able to do basic arithmetics. I even cannot count to 10.

      ¹ Except maybe Electrical engineers. They seem to be quite smart.

      • @Chakravanti@monero.town
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        21 month ago

        That’s hilarious. You’re not seeing what’s going on backwards just like that (as I point at the point going nowhere shitty) in an equation that is finding as many clAEver ways to say something you actually not caring about talking about.

        That’s like, "How many time van express the only thing that van’t be done until the 'verse itself tries to do what can’t be done and sever your…

        …Oh, I see…you don’t have ([of course, because you can’t have to give {is}) nothing)] to give.

        Unable to sea time doesn’t mean we can’t see(k)ER the mAETh.ac(k).cc(k).08

        The only thin(g):(k) that doesn’t ever be never, is not at alla hack(g)in(g).G your lackthereof to divi…

    • Kogasa
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      201 month ago

      The mathematician also used “operative” instead of, uh, something else, and “associative” instead of “commutative”

      • Zagorath
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        31 month ago

        “operative” instead of, uh, something else

        I think they meant “operand”. As in, in the way dy/dx can sometimes be treated as a fraction and dx treated as a value.

          • Zagorath
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            21 month ago

            The operand is the target of an operator

            Correct. Thus, dx is an operand. It’s a thing by which you multiply the rest of the equation (or, in the case of dy/dx, by which you divide the dy).

              • Zagorath
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                11 month ago

                You’re misunderstanding the post. Yes, the reality of maths is that the integral is an operator. But the post talks about how “dx can be treated as an [operand]”. And this is true, in many (but not all) circumstances.

                ∫(dy/dx)dx = ∫dy = y

                Or the chain rule:

                (dz/dy)(dy/dx) = dz/dx

                In both of these cases, dx or dy behave like operands, since we can “cancel” them through division. This isn’t rigorous maths, but it’s a frequently-useful shorthand.

                • @Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  21 month ago

                  I do understand it differently, but I don’t think I misunderstood. I think what they meant is the physicist notation I’m (as a physicist) all too familiar with:

                  ∫ f(x) dx = ∫ dx f(x)

                  In this case, because f(x) is the operand and ∫ dx the operator, it’s still uniquely defined.

                  • Zagorath
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                    01 month ago

                    Ok that’s some really interesting context I didn’t know. I’ve only ever seen it done the mathematician’s way with dx at the end. Learning physicists do it differently explains why the person in the post would want to discuss moving it around.

                    But I still think they have to mean “if dx can be treated as an operand”. Because “if dx can be treated as an operator” doesn’t make sense. It is an operator; there’s no need to comment on something being what it objectively is, and even less reason to pretend OOP’s partner was angry at this idea.