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How I imagine mathematicians... (lemmy.ml)
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Meme showing TV moderator getting more and more excited with each panel. The panels show different ways to write multiplication, starting with an asterisk, then an X, then a dot and finally omitting the symbol completely.
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[–] 67 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

What they actually see:

convolution
cross product
dot product
multiplication

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago

    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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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    In latex if you are using * you better mean convolution

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    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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