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28 points

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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9 points

I do trig for a living. I don’t remember how to do long division at all.

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1 point

What set of poor life choices led you to that??

(Kidding)

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7 points

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

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2 points

Counting cohomology has done to me a numbers x_x

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yeah cohomology can be particularly rough. look on the bright side though, at least you now have the tools to answer this question:

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4 points

No, counting with fingers is bad. Count with phalanges instead. It’s more efficient

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2 points

Just be sure to do it in binary. You gotta squeeze all of the value out of those phalanges.

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1 point

Exactly. That’s why I refuse to do algebra.

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19 points

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 ] ).

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11 points

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.

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6 points

You forgot p, q

They can be handy and come before e

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