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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 03:10:33 2020 No.11285972 View Reply Original Report

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What does the “n” in mathematical notation stand for?

What’s its etymology?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 03:11:41 No.11285974 Report

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Based troll

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 03:33:17 No.11285996 Report

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>>11285972
n is for number, brainlet
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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 04:22:26 No.11286056 Report

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The gamer word

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 05:11:25 No.11286130 Report

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>>11286056
Tbh if I wanted to up recruitment in math “What does the n stand for?” would be a pretty good slogan.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 05:16:09 No.11286135 Report

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>>11285972
nigger

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 05:16:56 No.11286138 Report

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>>11285996
Natural number, alshually, from what I can gather.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 05:40:26 No.11286180 Report

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it doesn't fucking matter

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 19:45:13 No.11287224 Report

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>>11285972
Damn. Sci really is full of the most intelligent people of all time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 19:54:50 No.11287242 Report

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>>11285996
It's actually not, which makes you a brainlet too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 19:57:18 No.11287248 Report

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>>11285972
It is a letter used for some kind of mathematical object. Same as $\infty$ .

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 19:57:55 No.11287250 Report

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>>11285972
Nigger

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Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 20:10:04 No.11287264 Report

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>>11285996
>/threading the own thread
>too retarded to get the slash right
/sci/ never fails to be retarded as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 20:10:44 No.11287265 Report

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what is 1 divided by nigger
pls help have to turn this in tomorrow

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 20:14:55 No.11287273 Report

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>>11285972
>etymology of a random letter

You absolute faggot

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 08 Jan 2020 23:57:45 No.11287702 Report

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It stands for newton, the guy who invented the Riemann sum (integrals)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 00:40:19 No.11287761 Report

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>>11285972
iNteger

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 00:47:55 No.11287776 Report

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>>11285972
nice proof, actually

wonder if a more general telescoping relation can be translated to a more general sum that is dominated by it.
I.e. whether there are nice functions f such that
f(1/(n-1)-f(1/n )
can be
rewritten as some other coherend summand of interest.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 00:49:58 No.11287781 Report

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>>11285972
You can't say that

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 01:02:19 No.11287809 Report

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Can someone start a /pol/ psyop to convince academia that they need to replace all instances of "n" as a generic variable name in math books with a less offensive letter?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 02:09:22 No.11287921 Report

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>>11287809
every variable in math is now q

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 02:17:14 No.11287931 Report

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it's an index

The etymology of "n" is from niggers, the hidden figures that secretly did the work in the old days were black mathematicians and African kings whose work was credited to whites. They used the letter "a" for "Africa", where they were kings, mathematicians, and philosophers before being enslaved by the white man. When they were enslaved the white mathematicians would change the letter a in their proofs to n, for nigger, after plagiarizing their work as a form of racial humiliation.

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Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 02:57:01 No.11287996 Report

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>>11287224
Don't be a faggot. Be useful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 07:26:36 No.11288399 Report

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>>11285972
Stands for nigger.
>>11287921
Stands for queer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 09 Jan 2020 20:03:09 No.11289437 Report

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>>11285972
nigger

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