I still sometimes think of pillars of one building when I think of concept of “tomorrow” because seeing those pillars was supposedly the first time in my childhood when I heard about “tomorrow”.
I don’t think I’ve ever been taught a mnemonic with animals
The small number is on the small side of the symbol, the large number is on the large side, it seems pretty intuitive to me, to be honest.
The Nemo file manager still managed to fuck it up. ‘Triangle pointing down means small filesizes on top, yeah?’
It is weird that Z is considered a bigger letter than A. If triangle pointing down means descending order, it would be Z-A. Ergo, it must mean ascending order and small filesizes are on top just like small letters are on top.
I learned it that way, along with the = sign showing the sides are equal. But by the time I was teaching, we used Pac-Man, drawing the rest of him around the hungry mouth. I still added “another way to look at it is,” and described the spaces:
Big>little same=same little<Big
Because it doesn’t matter how your mind makes the connection, as long as it works for you.
Edit to add:Pac-people are easier to draw than crocodiles
Surely in theoretical physics, the most common use of
is in a ket (eg.|ψ>).arguably, it’s |ψ〉, which is not the same as >
wow that’s a big difference (I have no idea what you are talking about)
I think 〉 means a very hungry (or at least large mouthed) crocodile, and > is just a normal one.
It is just a notation for linear algebra and linear operators on complex vector spaces together with their dual space both in the finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional case. Really quite simple stuff actually…
smiles and nods, smiles and nods…
Crocodile want to eat cactus ?
That cactus is the devil!
Crocodile needs eat cactus to see window
No? Not everyone’s doing work on quantum systems. Far from it. Most people do not need to use Dirac notation.
I guess not. Its just that when I hear ‘theoretical physics’ I immediately think of particle physics (and related fields). I have this idea that in most branches of physics people just say the topic, eg. astronomy, material sciences, or whatever; and don’t usually specify whether they are doing theoretical work or experimental/empirical work. But in particle physics … my impression is that people are more likely to specify. Anyway, that’s just my own bias I guess.
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big side, big number
MesseR Rechts, GabeL Links.
Every single time when setting up dishes on the table.
Say it in English grammar “GREATER than” means greater number first. And vice versa.
Crocodile eats bigger number is way easier to remember
I feel you.
How does this help me remember which symbol means greater than and which one means less than?
The bigger side of the symbol is greater. The small side is less.
We read left to right.
That make sense?
No, sorry, not at all. You just said 2 true things that i agree with. I just fail to see the connection. How does reading left to right help me remember that the bigger side is greater? You didn’t even mention the important part in the first comment as if it is implied by left to right reading. I’m clearly missing something that seems obvious to you
“How do you know if someone is doing a phd in physics?”
Ehh
- They tend to get the sign wrong, or straight up not know it and end every sentence with “or the other way around”
- their room is a mess
- they have a soldering iron and a box full of Arduinos/Rasberry Pis/ESPs
- they have weird hobbies, (or none, because their work is sufficiently shaped like weird hobbies/obsessions)
- they regularly say “local minimum” and “higher order effects” in casual conversation
What did I forget?
when you hold your hands with your fingers spread out in front of you the L is on the left
*palms away from you
< is part of a K. The K stands for Kleiner which means smaller in German/Dutch
< is a collapsed L which could be a shortened to “Less than”.
…Not that I’ve ever used this, I always picture a crocodile.
Alternatively you could see it as an angled g without the hook
Wed nes day
The version I got taught was gobbledy monster!
Duck!
And then here’s me having to have my wife help my daughter with her middle school math assignments because they entirely mystify me.
Taught in Florida. It was an alligator.
…and it was real. It ate all of our numbers and 1 kid.
