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Does anyone know where the use of the letter/variable "k" to refer to… | |
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@vollmerm I always heard it was because of the German word for continuation sta… | |
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@koronkebitch oh, maybe! | |
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@vollmerm @koronkebitch Hmmmm. The "proper" German word would be Forf… | |
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@smarr @vollmerm I could absolutely believe that this is something I made up in… | |
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@koronkebitch @smarr @vollmerm I always thought it was from German as well---si… | |
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@byorgey @koronkebitch @smarr @vollmerm I have literally just now understood th… | |
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@edwinb @byorgey @smarr @vollmerm yes same 😭😭😭 I'm like oh math no… | |
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@koronkebitch @edwinb @byorgey @vollmerm there's some argument to be made h… | |
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@koronkebitch @edwinb German is also the reason fields are K (Korper), just in … | |
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@counting_is_hard @koronkebitch @edwinb *Körper*Fortführung | |
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@vollmerm It's actually because I go by Ken | |
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@ccshan Of course! That makes sense 😄 | |
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@vollmerm I don't know for sure, but a few useful leads:* as mentioned else… | |
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@rg9119 Wow! Thanks so much, this is very comprehensive! I can't imagine ha… | |
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@vollmerm Two random side-facts:1) Michael Fischer's sister-in-law Charlott… | |
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@vollmerm @rg9119 I love the papers where they hand write it in (got a few tech… | |
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@vollmerm If I hadn't just gotten home, I'd look in my copy of Scott/St… | |
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@counting_is_hard yeah, I think you're right. https://goto.boserup.eu/@ah/… | |
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@vollmerm isn't it just because c was already used to refer to something el… | |
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@milo yeah, the CEK machine uses C to mean Control (which IIRC is borrowed from… | |
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@counting_is_hard @koronkebitch @edwinb This made me want to look up if there w… |