InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agoWhat have you learned recently? Serious answer or not.hexbear.netimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10
arrow-up145arrow-down1imageWhat have you learned recently? Serious answer or not.hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squareitappearsthat@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-26 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-up15·6 months agoGOOD fact
minus-squarequarrk [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoFinnish works this way too, coincidentally with ‘v’: vai is exclusive, and tai is inclusive.
minus-squareiByteABit [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoOoh that’s really cool, I thought it just originated from set theory symbols
minus-squareWater Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoWhy is the ‘and’ symbol an upside down v then? Just because?
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
Why is the ‘and’ symbol an upside down v then? Just because?