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Did the subtitle transcriber think that "In" is a name or something? Why is the "I" capitalized?
Unsure if.... fuck it I'll just blow it open.
The context is that log~e~ has a shortcut called "ln", that is L N, said lawn, for "natural logarithm" (but in... Latin probably?)
And so the joke is that "ln" looks like "in" in this context.
So this is really a font joke, stupid fonts that make the I and l look the same.
I always set my defaults to Tahoma for this reason.
Yes I know the joke. I was just pointing out that the "I" in "in" seems to be capitolized for no reason.
...it's not a capital "i", it's a lowercase L. Thus the joke; it's "I'm LN" instead of the usual "I'm in".
Yes I know the joke. It's an "I" in the subtitles I've watched the show twice over.
Maybe they're going by Emily Dickenson capitalization rules.
It's not subtitles from the show, it's a meme.
It appears you do not, in fact, get the joke.
In several mathematical notation systems, the most important being APL/J, programming languages inspired to codify "tools of thought" notation as code, the log function is ln. 10&log is base 10 log.
Its probably edited. The dialogue is real though.
I believe it was edited to fit the joke. If not, yeah I dunno. The context in the scene isn't ambiguous or anything, so if its like that in the show's subtitles, its likely an error.