@rzeta0
The pronunciation of the names of Greek letters by native English speakers seems to be a matter of taste 🙂
In Britain, ϕ is normally 'fye' and π is 'pie', but linguistically I suspect that 'fee' and 'pee' make more sense.
Also, why do Americans pronounce β and ζ as 'bayda' and 'zayda'?!
Also, also, I believe Germans tend to pronounce ζ (et al) with a short 'e' sound (which feels kind of sensible) - i.e. 'zetta'.
What we need is a proper Greek #mathematician to tell us all how say them!
@rzeta0
Native English speakers in general have long been confused about unexpected occurrences of the letter 'i' in 'foreign' words - almost certainly because we have a common word 'I' which we pronounce like the name of the letter, which, compared with most other European languages is a bit weird.
Also, the Great Vowel Shift didn't exactly help.
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The wonderful surprise of the day.
The #pronunciation of sinh (hyperbolic sin, #math) can be "shighn", just like shine.
They just moved the h!
@LiseAndreasen
Yes, and tanh sounds a bit like 'than'.
(Well, that's how I say it anyway.)
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notes : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Resources/TheoremNotes.htm#40
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An easy way to remember the difference between combination and permutation.
"permutation lock" will be my mnemonic
https://www.mathsisfun.com/combinatorics/combinations-permutations.html
The largest number representable in 64 bits https://lobste.rs/s/bp8ru2 #math #plt
https://tromp.github.io/blog/2026/01/28/largest-number-revised
An easy way to remember the difference between combination and permutation.
"permutation lock" will be my mnemonic
https://www.mathsisfun.com/combinatorics/combinations-permutations.html
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My data have not been verified but my work is highly reproducible.
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- Algorithms ➡️ https://oeis.org/wiki/Decomposition_into_weight_*_level_%2B_jump#Algorithms
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Is this an error in the textbook?
I don't think "let 𝑝 be prime" is required.
And none of the online resources state that 𝑝 must be prime eg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid–Euler_theorem
