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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    [–] 21 points 11 months ago (4 children)

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

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

    madness. How am I supposed to know if 36 = 36 or 36 = 8?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Chess Grandmasters: a3

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    b

    Because 3a = b

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    0a^0^ + 3a^1^

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    FYI for the alt text: that's Vince McMahon.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago

    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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