Mathematics - 2021-10-03 (page 2 of 2)

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Thorgott

22:03

yeah, I agree

writing the differential first is especially awful

leslie townes

i've made my peace with mathrm but i don't like the physics convention either.

shintuku

why is mathrm bad

i barely just discovered it and was tired of italic nonsense

leslie townes

it isn't a bad or good thing, just taste. unless you want my hot take on why coca-cola is good and pepsi cola is bad.

but i find it both ugly and visually distracting.

shintuku

if i see $image(f)$ i feel the need to multiply all of those together

especially $dim(V)$

leslie townes

for me there's a distinction in that d is one letter and not an abbreviation for a word or a word.

if d is also a variable, maybe, but d shouldn't also be a variable.

robjohn

22:12

@TedShifrin I used the Law of Sines, but I could get that elementarily

@TedShifrin The answer?

Ted Shifrin

@robjohn Hmm, with all the right triangles around I didn't need any.

Yes, the answer.

robjohn

That answer is horrendous

There has to be a simpler way.

Ted Shifrin

LOL

I don't mess with elliptic integrals other than with their Riemann surface interpretations.

SlamJammington

22:36

Howdy! I have a quick question, is it okay to post excel questions on mathematics? I'm trying to find what community would be best to put an excel question is but I'm not sure

Ted Shifrin

Definitely not mathematics, is it?

It is programming if anything.

SlamJammington

Yeah that's what I was thinking, but Stack Overflow says it's only for programming related manipulation of excel files. I just found that it recommends superuser so I'll try posting on theree