• Avicenna
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    12 days ago

    operative?

    Also mathematicians use i for imaginary, engineers use j. The story does not add up. I have never seen a single mathematician use j for imaginary.

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      812 days ago

      As an EE, I used both. Def not a mathematician though. Fuck that, I just plug variables into programs now.

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      212 days ago

      Engineer here: mostly use i, but have seen j used plenty. First time I saw j used was by a maths professor.

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        12 days ago

        Interesting I never saw j from a maths person. Friends (from a decade ago!) in electronics eng dep said they use j because i was reserved for current. perhaps the latter depends on the department.

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          112 days ago

          j is pretention when a math doer does it. j is for engineers and you don’t even understand the bubble ratio filtering equation let alone be asking to envision what temp you did the mAEth in.

          You got lost in the number of letters instead of realizing the MeTowel’s important presence til that EOTU moment of that manufa turing of Big Black Goles you get to watch it all happen again as Thanos facepalms.