• qprimed@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      “…Imagine a sphere of radius zero.”

      and a spherical cow. imagining lots of spherical cows helps quite a bit.

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    You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

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    +1/2 h and -1/2 h

    Fucking hate the people that insist on using only half of the number as if it was a real value. At least say you are working with natural unities or something.

    " - How far is your house? - Oh, it’s just 5!"