• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    You guys are mathematicians not letterematicians.

    Also, I’m doing engineering shit and I still need to count using my fingers when calculating something on a multiplication table

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      4 hours ago

      As a math guy, obviously the order of the letters is: x, y, z, a, b, c, then the rest of them in whatever order I currently feel like.

      As a CS guy, obviously the order is sort( [ set of all letters ] ).

    • affiliate@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      exactly!

      and i am always in favor of counting with fingers. we were given them for a reason, might as well make the most of them. counting is hard enough as it is