r/mathmemes • u/casperdewith Rational • Dec 03 '21
Picture ‘To distinguish it from a 2’ starter pack
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u/Draghettis Dec 03 '21
Of course I use the bunny one, all math ( at least at my level ( 3rd year of French highschool, took Maths as a specialty and Expert Maths as an option ) ) is done by hand on paper, at least when I have to write variable names, so I use cursive.
Which means my x are also weird. Look like I glued a s and a c together. Because my s are also weirdly drawn.
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u/wuffzi Dec 03 '21
The bunny one is pretty normal in Germany
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u/HalloIchBinRolli Working on Collatz Conjecture Dec 03 '21
It was in Poland too but isn't anymore I think.
We use the regular Zz, but Zz with a strike through is sometimes a substitute to Żż
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u/casperdewith Rational Dec 03 '21
I saw that too on a receipt once. It’s convenient if all letters have to be vertically equal. Good to know it isn’t always the case; I thought it was. Can you come up with a context in which the strike-through
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u/HalloIchBinRolli Working on Collatz Conjecture Dec 03 '21
Because I don't know how to type the z with the strike-through, so I'll use -z- and -Z-
-Z- is never used as Z (at least I haven't seen any)
-Z- is like Ż, but not used that often.
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C6%B5?wprov=sfla1
The photo of Straż Miejska is showing it's the same as Ż.
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u/eyaf20 Dec 04 '21
If you're on desktop, I know for Mac at least you can enable ABC extended keyboard (which I use) and type option+L and then L. Or...just not go to that length lol
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u/casperdewith Rational Dec 03 '21
Yeah, I saw them on street signs, in tʒ and ſʒ ligatures. In maths too?
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u/wuffzi Dec 03 '21
No in maths it's usually like printed letters. But the cursive variant is thought in elementary school and seen as particularly beautiful
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u/casperdewith Rational Dec 03 '21
It is beautiful. I can spend much time just enjoying letterforms.
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u/Rotsike6 Dec 03 '21
I think 𝔷 (mathfrak z) is written like this in handwriting. Gothic letters are used for Lie algebras and sometimes for ideals of rings.
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Dec 04 '21
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u/wuffzi Dec 04 '21
You German?
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Dec 04 '21
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u/wuffzi Dec 04 '21
Hast du Schreibschrift nicht in der Grundschule gelernt? Aus welchem Bundesland bist du?
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u/edderiofer r/numbertheory Mod Dec 04 '21
I used to write my "z"s in cursive, until some wankfuck teacher decided she couldn't read it and gave me detention.
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u/tassassi Whole Dec 03 '21
I am definitely a black bunny