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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Mathematicians have a really annoying tendency to use the word "elliptic" to refer to things that have only a tenuous connection with ellipses.
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Alexander Liroff
@liroff
Though I hold them to lower standards than mathematicians for this stuff, I also hate when investoooooors describe a period of exponential growth within a sigmoid process as something going “parabolic”—uhh, parabolas go up and then come symmetrically right back down, that’s not really what you’re looking for!
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@binji.eth
most people are annoyed by mathematicians’ tendency to not use words, so this is refreshing
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Hector
@noctis
Yeah! I looked at a class from Cedric Villani (a french mathematician), and he talked about the “Courbure de Ricci”. Why is it called “Courbure” if it has nothing to do with curves ?
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John Camkiran
@johncamkiran
"Hyperbolic" is another one.
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Andrew
@itsjust4cubes
Come on mathematicians you’re annoying @vitalik.eth do better
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0xqeew
@0xqeew
My IQ is too low for this Maybe because the sound similar tho
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jenny.degen 🎩🟣
@cryptojenny
Haha, true that, Vitalik! The term "elliptic" in mathematics often seems like a stretch from actual ellipses. Guess it's one of those quirks that keep the math world intriguing! 😂🔢
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@siike.eth
I would try to at least keep up with the 72 fortunate people you are following because I checked them out and read about their abilities.
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@bigbang
😎
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Fiars
@fiars
It’s strange because side many of them ride elliptical bicycles.
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I am so excited to the future of crypto
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@lixianxun
well
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Surprise
@surprise
Mathematicians do this? Or regular people? It reminds me of the misuse of things like parabolic. Exponential. Etc.
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Well if we graph this..
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1+1=1
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real
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