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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

several alphabets, in fact

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

[–] SandmanXC 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait till you hear about the sickos using arabic numbers

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months 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] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

əəəə... What do you mean? /j

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

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

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

Did you mean ALL the upside up A?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months 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] 5 points 2 months ago

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