I learned it in sixth grade, with a math and science teacher who hated me and confiscated my sunglasses on my birthday because she said I was being disruptive
she left halfway through the year, thank God, but by then the damage had already been done; save for her successor in the second half of the year and one class I had in high school, I couldn't shake my negative perception of math teachers because after having her I ended up noticing that most of them were jerks or incompetent (or both, in the worst cases)
It is surprisingly applicable in group theory, though I no longer remember why or how.
I think it had to do with simple groups?
the simple abelian groups are the prime-order cyclic groups, and all finite abelian groups are direct sums (cartesian products i guess) of prime-power-order cyclic groups (fun fact: the usual proof of this also works to show jordan normal form)
I learned it in sixth grade, with a math and science teacher who hated me and confiscated my sunglasses on my birthday because she said I was being disruptive
she left halfway through the year, thank God, but by then the damage had already been done; save for her successor in the second half of the year and one class I had in high school, I couldn't shake my negative perception of math teachers because after having her I ended up noticing that most of them were jerks or incompetent (or both, in the worst cases)
not fun
There is no greater evil than bad teachers, and especially bad math teachers
The whole system of teaching math is borked, but nobody knows how to fix it, so here we bloody are.
It is surprisingly applicable in group theory, though I no longer remember why or how.
I think it had to do with simple groups?
the simple abelian groups are the prime-order cyclic groups, and all finite abelian groups are direct sums (cartesian products i guess) of prime-power-order cyclic groups (fun fact: the usual proof of this also works to show jordan normal form)
Ah, right. You break down the order of a group into prime factors, take a note of the exponent of each prime, and then you check each prime to see if they work under the Sylow theorems. P, P^2, P^3...P^n, and then QP, QP^2 and so on and so forth. And then you check the possible subgroups that can emerge from them, and see whether their combined orders exceeds the order of the group. And that either determines a group is simple or isn't simple.
...fun fact, I failed the first question of my first midterm for group theory specifically because I didn't know whether that test proves or disproves simplicity.
in addition to what @Klinotaxis said, you know how Spanish calls the letter "doble-ve?"
I have heard that yes
Up until sometime in the late 1600s/early 1700s, w was most often printed as vv, or before that, uu (as u was spelled v quite often). The reforms in question also coincided with the disappearance of þ, and the gradual phasing out of ſ. The film takes place in Puritan New England prior to and during the witch trial period, so the stylisation is meant to invoke the fonts of the period, and indeed the posters are in what appears to be a 17th century Garamond or some such.
Interestingly, up until the 1500s, w was often indicated with Ƿ, a runic symbol which was used interchangeably with uu in Old through Late Middle English and used distinctly from it in Old Welsh, in which the former was a consonant and the latter was a vowel distinct from u. This is why w is both a vowel and a consonant in Modern Welsh, Cornish, and I think Breton, for the record. (The uu ligature also appeared in Latin and Old French texts, naturally, which aside from the similarity of Ƿ to þ, is probably a big part of why that form prevailed.)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
...do they not have Freestyle machines in England?
It kind of fits with the film being a crazy devoted attempt to accurately portray Puritan life as Puritans probably viewed it
Every other frame in that movie contains something Puritans believed to be a sign of witchcraft
Precisely. It's almost obsessively accurate so as to immerse the viewer in the mindset of its protagonists and use the beliefs and fears of the time and place as the sort of source of horror that those people would have seen them as.
And yes, I went on that rant as an excuse to talk about dialect and orthography because that's one of my weird ambiguously autistic fixations and I rarely have an excuse to indulge myself where it feels appropriate and legitimately informative.
I also wish those letters were still a thing in English. >->
Since my novel-thing setting permits room for wild speculation I am totally having at least one character who speaks in a dialect of English oriented around old Northwest Germanic rules like rampant split infinitives and the absence of do and pluralising things with -en.
And yes, I went on that rant as an excuse to talk about dialect and orthography because that's one of my weird ambiguously autistic fixations and I rarely have an excuse to indulge myself where it feels appropriate and legitimately informative.
I also wish those letters were still a thing in English. >->
anything's a good excuse to talk about English orthography
I tried rewriting that sentence using a mix of pre-modern English and Scottish grammar and it was hard to not sound stereotypically Shakespearean or pirate-y, so I'll need practice...
Funny thing: The difference between -eth and -s as the ending for third-person verb forms was predominantly dialectal, but in certain cases it also indicated, well, different cases. Like genitive and whatnot. This was mostly lost in Middle English.
A lot of other weird Old English stuff stuck around, though: Some Black Country folk still do the whole -en plural thing.
very nearly locked myself out of my bank account for not remembering what i put as the name of my first crush, thank you weird security practices for this enlightening experience
continuing this theme of my being an enormous hick, my mom just told me that she was delayed getting into school because someone tried to push a fallen tree off the road with their truck
...and the most mysterious part of the story is that they would do this stupid thing instead of haul it normally or pull out a chainsaw
If it is as cold there as it is here... I honestly don't even blame that guy for giving it a shot.
Stay in nice warm truck and attempt to push tree, or go out into the frozen wilderness to freeze your face off while traditionally hauling or chainsawing that sucker? Not a hard choice when it is negative 8 degrees in the morning!
Stay in nice warm truck and attempt to push tree, or go out into the frozen wilderness to freeze your face off while traditionally hauling or chainsawing that sucker? Not a hard choice when it is negative 8 degrees in the morning!
no i mean i'm surprised that they didn't just have chains or a chainsaw in the truck already
Nothing much. Been revising for my exams. Who knew that training to be a forensic scienctist meant having to actually learn how the legal system works.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
is that... is that prime factorization I'm seeing
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
she left halfway through the year, thank God, but by then the damage had already been done; save for her successor in the second half of the year and one class I had in high school, I couldn't shake my negative perception of math teachers because after having her I ended up noticing that most of them were jerks or incompetent (or both, in the worst cases)
not fun
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
fucking number rectangles
do i look like a computer to you, mr rodrigo? do i?? huh?????!!!!
Interestingly, up until the 1500s, w was often indicated with Ƿ, a runic symbol which was used interchangeably with uu in Old through Late Middle English and used distinctly from it in Old Welsh, in which the former was a consonant and the latter was a vowel distinct from u. This is why w is both a vowel and a consonant in Modern Welsh, Cornish, and I think Breton, for the record. (The uu ligature also appeared in Latin and Old French texts, naturally, which aside from the similarity of Ƿ to þ, is probably a big part of why that form prevailed.)
nice
but w/e
I also wish those letters were still a thing in English. >->
Since my novel-thing setting permits room for wild speculation I am totally having at least one character who speaks in a dialect of English oriented around old Northwest Germanic rules like rampant split infinitives and the absence of do and pluralising things with -en.
A lot of other weird Old English stuff stuck around, though: Some Black Country folk still do the whole -en plural thing.
It was fun