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[–] lelgenio@lemmy.ml 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] wisha@lemmy.ml 66 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I just downvoted your comment.

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  • Writing variables next to each other to form words. "Y o u" is not an English word. If you want the English word "You" in LaTeX math mode, write \text{You}.
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[–] wisha@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I didn't actually downvoted your comment but apprently someone did and now I look like an asshole 😢.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly with a writeup like this I wouldn't be mad about it even if you did, this is excellent. I wish all my downvoted comments got this kind of attention.

[–] wisha@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

It’s an old copypasta from reddit haha. I modified it to add the Fediverse stuff and my complaints with LaTex and improper rotation.

[–] dave@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

Downvoted because it didn’t end with /s.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 5 months ago

\cdot all the way (except e.g. cross-product for vectors, I'm not an anarchist)

[–] rescue_toaster@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago

As someone that grades undergraduates, I'm happy that they not use the letter "x" to imply multiplication.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I need 'em both. Not everything I multiply is a number.

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

dot product vs cross product

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 months ago

In LaTeX? You really are a rebel.

[–] IAmVeraGoodAtThis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

(1)(3)(5)

Fight me. Also, one of these is a function

[–] Kruemel@feddit.de 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

times is for cartesian product, cdot if i feel like it

[–] the_beber@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

\cdot for matrix multiplication and the dot product, \times for cross product and nothing (or *, if I want to write it explicitly and have no convolution in the expression) for regular multiplication.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

or *, if I want to write it explicitly and have no convolution in the expression

But why

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

'*' is commonly used for multiplication in computer programming, so it's probably that. Also in your calculator app

[–] thisfro@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

This is the way

[–] ofcourse@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
  • \cdot for vectors and in some cases, scalar variables, e.g., x \cdot y
  • \times for numbers, e.g., 2 \times 8
  • nothing for combination and scalars, e.g., 2x or xy
[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

cdots is within matrices and times is used for a m \times n matrix

How about nothing at all