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UnusualDisturbance t1_iwykmn7 wrote

Reply to comment by Zirnike in [WP] "The new species call themselves 'humans', and while their intelligence is on the low end when it comes to interstellar civilisations, their pure mathematical knowledge is far superior to the entire galactic community's." by Mabi19_

programmer here. base 8 roman numerals sent cold shivers down my spine.

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Zirnike t1_iwyzd2f wrote

I'm an engineer. It was painful to even think about.

How integrals? Shudder

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Graveyard_01 t1_ix5u8us wrote

Astrophysics major here. How the frick do they even work with lightyears. Like… geez, imagine writing the gravitational constant in Roman numerals

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Zirnike t1_ix5ukeh wrote

"is that 'e,' for order of magnitude or is it a number?"

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Graveyard_01 t1_ix5x70g wrote

depends on which e u mean, there is a e for natural log (which might be the e u mean), an e for eccentricity of an orbit, and an e used by computers for scientific notation; 10e+2 means 1000 (and which also might be what u mean).

Edit: 1e-3 means 0.001 Edit again: self note, don’t use - as line breaks

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Zirnike t1_ix5xvf9 wrote

Natural log related e generally has a superscript, but I take your point.

Oh, goddess, now I'm trying to figure out irrational and imaginary numbers in Roman numerals.

MAKE IT STOP!!!

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Graveyard_01 t1_ixfawrg wrote

Additions of numbers bigger than 50 are already horror enough

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DrBlowtorch t1_iy5s6hq wrote

Highschool Student in AP Calc here. How the hell did they manage anything at all with a numerical system designed by Satan himself.

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R3D3-1 t1_ixycrld wrote

I am less concerned with integrals and more with how they managed to implement any form of digital computation system without figuring out a proper numbering system XD

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