• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Did the subtitle transcriber think that “In” is a name or something? Why is the “I” capitalized?

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      23 hours ago

      Unsure if… fuck it I’ll just blow it open.

      The context is that loge has a shortcut called “ln”, that is L N, said lawn, for “natural logarithm” (but in… Latin probably?)

      And so the joke is that “ln” looks like “in” in this context.

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        17 hours ago

        So this is really a font joke, stupid fonts that make the I and l look the same.

        I always set my defaults to Tahoma for this reason.

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        17 hours ago

        Yes I know the joke. I was just pointing out that the “I” in “in” seems to be capitolized for no reason.

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        22 hours ago

        In several mathematical notation systems, the most important being APL/J, programming languages inspired to codify “tools of thought” notation as code, the log function is ln. 10&log is base 10 log.