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Fake and gay.
No way the engineer corrects the mathematician for using j instead of i.
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.
Engineer here, I can definitely count to 10 tho
0 1 10
0 1 everything that comes after is simply summarizes as “many”
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Electrical engineers are the ones that use j though (because i is used for current)
I am used for current
10? That’s the name some put to 1e1, right?
Except maybe Electrical engineers.
Yup, I can count just fine to the 10th number in a zero-indexed counting system: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white.
The inner machinations of an electrical engineer is too complicated for me to understand, I think they might be thinking on a higher order to understand these circuits
Thats why I barely passed my electrical engineering class lol
Having worked with electrical engineers, some of them are quite smart, the rest have lead poisoning.
How do we know it’s gay though? OP could be a girl (male)
Because it’s 4chan. And there are no women on the Internet on 4chan
Sure OP is a girl. Guy In Real Life
Right? They got that shit backwards. Op is a fraud. i is used in pure math, j is used in engineering.
My thoughts exactly lol
Wait bottom mathematican is using j=√-1 instead of i and not the engineer? Because I’m EE gang, and all my homies use j.
That part also got me really confused. All the mathematicans I know use i while engineers use i or j depending on the kind of engineer. I’ve never seen a Pikachu engineer using anything other than j.
Pikachu engineer
That’s a fucking favorite now. Keeping that in my back pocket.
OPs boyfriend is obviously an i engineer and hates j engineers. No one can stay angry at mathematicians - engineers on the other hand…
I agree. Clearly i is current. What is this i=√-1 nonsense.
[Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.
a real mathematician would use
(0, 1)instead ofi
sado-mathochist
Well done, truly
Thado-mathocist. The real chad all along.
It makes me wonder if somewhere out there in a multiverse, a community of lisping incels all collectively draw the chad wojak as as an aramaic looking dude.
Is anyone doing anything tonight?
no, d…do you have a plan?
Something something distance calls for norm, not just squares.
||i||² + ||1||² = 2
Imagining your death. :P
But seriously, it’s perfectly sensible when remember that i is just the mathematical representation of “left turn”, just like -1 is the mathematical representation of “go backwards”-- and as we know, two left turns sends you backwards. So think about this triangle in the following way:
Imagine you are a snail, starting at the origin. Now imagine that you walk forward 1 step along the horizontal line. Then you turn 90° to the left to start walking along the vertical line, but then, because you need to walk i steps along this line you take another 90° turn to the left, which means that you are now walking backwards and you end up back at the origin. How far away from the origin are you? Zero steps.
This one made me laugh almost as much as the OP. Thank you!
NGL, this is hot.
I’m a mechanical engineering student with a math minor and I’m a switch so yeah, I’d take either side of this
operative?
Also mathematicians use i for imaginary, engineers use j. The story does not add up. I have never seen a single mathematician use j for imaginary.
As an EE, I used both. Def not a mathematician though. Fuck that, I just plug variables into programs now.
I have both mechanical and electrical backgrounds. MEs like I, EEs prefer j
imaJinary
TIL engineers can’t spell for shit.
The associativity thing also doesnt make sense.
Engineer here: mostly use i, but have seen j used plenty. First time I saw j used was by a maths professor.
Interesting I never saw j from a maths person. Friends (from a decade ago!) in electronics eng dep said they use j because i was reserved for current. perhaps the latter depends on the department.
Cannot confirm, we always used i.
Me, a language/arts person: “Huh?”
Web dev here. “Huh?”
Webdev not knowing anything about computer science (and thus mathematics)? I am shocked. Shocked!
Fullstack dev here. “Huh?”
Medical here. “Huh?”
Moron here. “Huh?”
This is the kind of brat I can get behind. 😏
😏
I have no idea what they’re talking about, but I do love a happy ending.
As a physicist I can’t understand why would anyone complain about a +jb or $\int dx f(x)$. Probably because we don’t fuck
As a software dude I can see you wrote a regex, I just can’t find out what you’re trying to match.
Pardon my denseness, but is this sarcasm? Since that is a TeX snippet.
Why would a RegEx start with a
?Yeah, it is. I’m just working with what I have.
Heeyy… So when you need to express something more, well, delicate than just code, you need to use math symbols. For that you can use tex expressions. Modern markdown supports it: just copy and paste the $…$ part into any render engine
I’m scared. I think I’ll generate some backend spec to calm down.
Nooo… You should write spec and generate code, not the other way around
Why would a mathematician use j for imaginary numbers and why would engineer be mad at them?
The only thing I can think of is that the OP studied electrical engineering at some point. But it’s a 4chan story so probably fake anyway.
fake and gay?
I think it might be the wrong way around: Engineers like to use j for imaginary numbers because i is needed for current.
Mathematicians are taught to be elastic with notation, because they tend to be taught many different interpretations of the same theory.
On the other hand engineers use more strict and consistent notation, their classes have a more practical approach.
Using the same notation makes it faster to read and apply math, a more agile approach helps with learning new theories and approaches and with being creative.
Better plot than 50 Shades of Grey
hehe plot. getit? math and graphs and shit
Lmfao kill yourself
They both bottoms.
Relationship goals
I think rather
d/dxis the operator. You apply it to an expression to bind free occurrences ofxin that expression. For example,dx²/dxis best understood asd/dx (x²). The notation would be clear if you implement calculus in a program.If not fraction, why fraction shaped?
If you use exterior calculus notation, with d = exterior derivative, everything makes so much more sense
I just think of the definition of a derivative.
dis just an infinitesimally small delta. Sody/dxis literally justlim (∆ -> 0) ∆y/∆x. which is the same aslim (x_1 -> x_0) [f(x_0) - f(x_1)] / [x_0 - x_1].Note:
∆ -> 0isn’t standard notation. But writing∆x -> 0requires another step of thinking:y = f(x)therefore∆y = ∆f(x) = f(x + ∆x) - f(x)so you only need∆xapproaching zero. But I prefer thinkingd = lim (∆ -> 0) ∆.
