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[-] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I had ideas for math themed places:

  • Heaviside step function, a club
  • $\overline{the}$, a bar
[-] Squorlple@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

My alma mater had a café named Foo Bar in a computer science building

[-] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

Petition to rename the common words: boyling water, poynting towards things, and heavi weights.

[-] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 days ago

Which vector isn't pointing tho?

[-] i_love_FFT@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago

Poynting vector points towards the direction energy is going, if I recall correctly.

[-] supernight52@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

While I don't necessarily understand the finer points of the meme, I couldn't help but read the "Poynting vector" equation as "SEX B OVER MU" and I couldn't figure out why sex is happening over a cow...

I am a little stoned rn, so that may have something to do with that. Yes, I am aware it's pronounced "Mew"

[-] ftbd@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced mü, not mew

[-] supernight52@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Which is pronounced...? English doesn't have that character. Our closest analogue would be "mew."

[-] mmddmm@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

While I don’t necessarily understand the finer points of the meme

None of those things are named after the properties the meme points out.

[-] supernight52@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Waow, it's almost like you're taking a stoned comment written in 10 seconds way too seriously.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Oh I'm definitely nicking this for !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

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