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It's maths, not math and Aluminium sounds so much better. Aluminum sounds as bad to me as Newk-you-lah

ITT regional differences in science and mathematical terms that piss you off.

>> No.1151770

Mathmatics

>> No.1151784

ln not pronounced as "lahn"

>> No.1151794

no one with any command of the English language says "Newk-you-lah"

Also, aluminum is a result of "national identity" issues.

>> No.1151797

Maths sounds like you're speaking with a mouth full of marbles. It's math, motherfucker.

>> No.1151811

>>1151784
"Natural log" has way too many syllables. I've also heard "lihn," but that just sounds retarded.

>> No.1151842

>>1151811
where i come from, we call it el-en and we see it's good

>> No.1151857

platinium

>> No.1151876

"So, just take the inTEGral of coosh ex with respect to x to find the ansWER." Drives me crazy every time.

>> No.1151877

Usually I hear natural log pronounced just "log."

>> No.1151879

How we pronounce in California:

nu-kle-ur
ah-lum-in-um
nah-tur-ul lawg
math-a-mat-ix
math

>> No.1151884

>>1151797
It's mathematics, not mathematic.

>> No.1151903

>>1151879
nigger not at Berkley we don't, maybe you do in your fucking trailer park, but not here....

>> No.1151917

>>1151877
it should be "lawn".

And I am from Ohio

>> No.1151913 [DELETED] 

>>1151653

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>> No.1151923

Ya, I'm sorry, but for the British to have invented the English language they seem to be the best at fucking it up every chance they can get.

Seriously, how much shit do you have to pronounce wrong, blatantly wrong at that, in order for the US and the rest of the world to just start calling it American.

Draw becomes Drawr
Saw becomes Sawr
Aluminum become Aluminium

So here's an idea. Let's not get our panties in a bunch and inadvertently point out how we are wrong. Can we agree on that maybe?

/thread

This thread is now about America's ridiculous standards of measurement. If you must have something to bash Americans about.

>> No.1151934

>>1151923
agree

also guerrilla is always pronounced gerrrillerrr in bbc, shit makes me race

>> No.1151938

Also, I usually see natural log written as just "log."

>> No.1151941

>>1151923

fucking feet and yards just make physics in America retarded

>> No.1151947

richard dawkins: evi-loo-tion

>> No.1151954

>>1151941
also pounds (abbreviated lb.??? wtf is with that) suck

>> No.1151955

That's one fucking sexy geode.

Goddamn, I'm getting rock hard over here.

>> No.1151956

>>1151941
also "ameriker"

>> No.1151965

>>1151938
Then they are wrong... it's ln. Just look at a scientific calculation

>> No.1151962

ITT: Americans insulting the English for speaking the language they fucking invented wrong.

>> No.1151960

>>1151923
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

>> No.1151968

>>1151923
most of this post, yes. But the aluminum part?
Look at period 3: aluminium, indium, gallium, thallium. It's aluminium not aluminum.

FACE IT.

>> No.1151971

>>1151962

draw
D
R
A
W
(R??????????????????)

how the fuck do you guys manage to put extra sounds in? WHYY?

>> No.1151974

ITT /sci/ makes fun of regional dialects.

>> No.1151976

>>1151903

I live in Berkeley, faggot.

>> No.1151978

Brits use FEET and MILES too.
Brits use STONES (14 lbs) for body weight.

Brits are not the same as Europeans as a whole.

Brits are just as FUCKED UP as Americans.

>> No.1151981

>>1151968
not in America!

love it or leave it!

and by it i mean earth

HA!

>> No.1151986

>>1151978

fucking britfags and amerifags need to adot fucking metric, and give up retarded currency. like pennies....

>> No.1151987

>>1151968
it's an historical artifact

Jesus fucking christ. Give it a rest.

>> No.1151996

>>1151981
How can you justify using a term that is so clearly wrong?

>> No.1151990

>>1151923

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/30/mars.metric.02/

That's all I have to fucking say.

>> No.1151999

>>1151990
i luld

>> No.1152006

>>1151996
dumb nigger its sarcasm, im moving to France in 3 months, relaxxxxx

>> No.1152008

I still want to fuck that geode. Where can I get one?

>> No.1152011

>>1151990
you just had to bring that up... -_-

>> No.1152019

>>1152006
>>1151999
>>1151986
>>1151981
>>1151971
>>1151956
>>1151954
>>1151941
>>1151934
>>1151903


samefag detected, becasue im that samefag HARRR

>> No.1152025

>>1151976

ok, what was the weather like today?

>> No.1152041

>>1151987
How about we look at most of the rest of the periodic table, say: the whole of groups 1 & 2, selenium, osmium, iridium, americium, yttrium, lawrencium.

There are so few -um endings (platinum, tantalum are the only ones I can remember right now), don't you think maybe they are the "wrong" ones?

>> No.1152043

SULPHUR not SULFUR
I refuse to use the bastardised version, despite it recently being adopted here in the UK as well. -.-

>> No.1152057

Is it just me, or does Australia seem to have better pronunciation than the USA and the UK, even though we just mix them together.

>> No.1152055

>>1152043
ha!

>> No.1152053

>>1151960

Touche. You have to admit though, pronouncing those other words in such a manner is willingly ignorant.

>> No.1152056

And I pronounce hockey "ho kkey", not "haw key"... we all have our own ways of speaking.

>> No.1152069

>>1152057

US>AUS>UK

>> No.1152058

>>1151811

Given that that you define logarithms of other bases in terms of the "natural" logarithm, I see no reason to call it anything other than "logarithm", e.g. log e = 1. Most mathematicians agree with me.

>> No.1152073

>>1151990
>cnn
didn't even click the link

>> No.1152076
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>> No.1152080

>>1152069
england invented the us and aus.

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>>1152080
and yet they are shittier talkers than us, how strange.

>> No.1152088

>>1152080
"invented"?

>> No.1152094
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>>1152080
>implying a nation can "invent" a language

>> No.1152095

We're all Europeans.
Get over it.

>> No.1152102

>>1152058
ln (pronounced lawn) is to distinguish natural log from other based logs. If you say "log" it can be any base, and often is assumed to be base 10. If you say ln, there is no ambiguity.

>> No.1152101
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>>1152095
I'm an African American, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

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>>1152101

and im a shellfish!

>> No.1152108

>>1152094
>>1152088
>>1152086
>implying you didnt just get trolled.

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>>1152106
>>1152101

good news everyone...

>> No.1152116

>>1152108

lol, ok kid

get told then claim troll.

ok...ok....

>> No.1152123

>>1152073

Here you go douchebag. Couldn't find a Fox News clip because Jesus didn't write it in the Bible.

>> No.1152124

THIS IS NOW A FUTURAMA THREAD

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>>1152141

told

>> No.1152142

>>1152102

Really in my little corner of the world (mathematics) no one would assume that you meant base 10. What use is a base 10 logarithm anyways?

>> No.1152141

>>1152095
>implying modern homosapiens came from Europe and not Africa

>> No.1152149

>>1152123

http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/6Page53.pdf

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>>1152142

the default base for TI-83 plus, that what!

>> No.1152168

>>1152150

Don't forget the TI-84+

>> No.1152182

>>1152069
>US>AUS>UK

CAN>AUS>UK>US>NZ

:D

>> No.1152186

>>1152142
decible, earthquakes, ...

And I did a BS in math...

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1152191

see where the <div class="math">e</div> is? What's it say...?

>> No.1152204

>>1152191
let me rephrase... let's see what functions are paired?

<span class="math">log[/spoiler] and <span class="math">10^x[/spoiler]
<span class="math">ln[/spoiler] and <span class="math">e^x[/spoiler]

>> No.1152209 [DELETED] 

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>> No.1152216

DAMMIT /sci/ I WANT TO MARRY THE GEODE IN THE OP'S PIC. I CAN GO TO JAPAN FOR THE MARRIAGE, BUT FIRST I NEED TO FIND A BEAUTIFUL GEODE LIKE THE ONE OP HAS.

WE'LL INVITE YOU OVER FOR THREESOMES IF YOU HELP.

>> No.1152217

>>1152123
faux news is just as biased, though most of the faggots in these forums are liberal faggots so they see no bias

>> No.1152231

>>1152150

Right. Those calculators were designed, specifically, to be used by students. I understand that base ten logs are a part of the high school and, to a lesser extent, the undergraduate curriculum. I tend to believe that's mostly a matter of tradition.

But I wasn't being facetious. I really wonder if there's any real use for them that makes them more special than, say, the base two logarithm.

>> No.1152247

>>1152231
in physics there are few base 10 logarithmic scales. I don't know much else.

I always thought my HP48G was special for smart peoples... :(

I honestly don't know where the convention for ln came from... let me google.

>> No.1152262

>>1152231
best i could find in 2 minutes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_logarithm#Notational_conventions

>> No.1152315

>>1152247

Like decibels, sure, but I think that tends to be more historical. There's no real reason why those couldn't (shouldn't?) be in terms of e. I think it's pretty funny that the wiki page says that computer scientists mean base 2.

>> No.1152325

>>1152315
i hear you. The only two base 10 I know off the top of my head are decibles and Ritcher (earthquake) scales. Oh, and that movie Power of 10.

>> No.1152352

Natural Log is pronounced 'lʊn' where I am, but some people call it elenn, or lin. I think it's largely down to the user.

>> No.1152370

dah-tah = day-tah

Circumcision = retarded

>> No.1152437

Fine /sci/. I have given up on my dream of having a beautiful blue geode wife. I'll go on, but I know I'm always going to have that lingering desire.

You showed me that true happiness was possible, and then you ripped my heart out.

Fuck you /sci/, fuck you.

>> No.1152516

I do like Americans defending calling it aluminum when it is on the periodic table as aluminium.

Imagine someone who pronounced circle as kirkle, and then got uppity when you tried to correct him.

Thats you.

>> No.1152544

>>1152437

Fair commitment, troll.