InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agoWhat have you learned recently? Serious answer or not.hexbear.netimagemessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down11
arrow-up142arrow-down1imageWhat have you learned recently? Serious answer or not.hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareitappearsthat@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-25 months agoI learned that the reason a logical “or” symbol in mathematics is a v is because Latin has separate words for inclusive-or (vel) and exclusive-or (aut), unlike English where it is usually ambiguous. And vel starts with v.
minus-squarecomrade_pibb [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·5 months agoGOOD fact
minus-squarequarrk [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoFinnish works this way too, coincidentally with ‘v’: vai is exclusive, and tai is inclusive.
minus-squareiByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoOoh that’s really cool, I thought it just originated from set theory symbols
I learned that the reason a logical “or” symbol in mathematics is a v is because Latin has separate words for inclusive-or (vel) and exclusive-or (aut), unlike English where it is usually ambiguous. And vel starts with v.
GOOD fact
Finnish works this way too, coincidentally with ‘v’: vai is exclusive, and tai is inclusive.
Ooh that’s really cool, I thought it just originated from set theory symbols