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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago (20 children)

i was in a group call with 6 mathematicians, and it came time to order our names in the paper we were writing. in math papers, the names are always ordered alphabetically. we had to pull up a picture of the alphabet because none of us could remember which way the letters are ordered.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (17 children)

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

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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 ] ).

[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You forgot i, j, k

It's actually x, y, z, a, b, c, i, j, k, e, and then whatever, they don't matter.

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

You forgot p, q

They can be handy and come before e

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