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I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You need a 4 year degree to understand the wall of text in that explanation.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was about to say "not really," but then I remembered that I have a couple of those, so yeah, probably.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really hope you're joking. It's written with high school level vocabulary at most.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It appears that an individual's heuristic analytical mechanism is engendering a subversion of their affective response system, resulting in epistemic determinations that lack substantiation from the linguistic parameters prevalent within the upper two quartiles of the demographic distribution.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Thank you, Mr. Data.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

We’ve become exceedingly efficient at it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago
[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

Exponents and Logarithms can be first taught in Middle School in many places, but sometimes get revisited during Calculus in AP High School or at University level.