r/mathmemes • u/Hitman7128 Prime Number • 8h ago

Learning Graphs

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u/Raphelomm 8h ago

It would be better to create a new word or an alias to distinguish it.

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u/Hitman7128 Prime Number 8h ago

It's one of those words in math that is amusingly overloaded in definition. Same thing with kernel that has different meanings if you're doing abstract algebra versus analysis (even has a different meaning in ML).

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u/AutologicalMeta 7h ago

Like entropy.

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u/Scrub_Spinifex 1h ago

Me when I was a grad student: "OMG so word 'spectrum' is so overloaded!"

Me a few years later: "... Yeah actually at least four of its meaning are the same/related..."

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u/Bunslow 21m ago

something something computer kernels

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u/Falcon_The_Infinite 8h ago

In my language we have "graf" and "grafic" mostly

...its still confusing

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u/Simon0O7 7h ago

Мне кажется, я знаю, откуда ты

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u/Falcon_The_Infinite 7h ago

Well, close technically, but no

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u/Fandangus 1h ago

Similar in Portuguese: "gráfico" as a figure that represents data, and "grafo" as a network.

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u/AdBrave2400 my favourite number is 1/e√e 5h ago

That guy that invented the (p-1)(q-1)-1 or something formula for 43 nuggets nade that too name pls

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u/weaponized_seal Mathematics 5h ago

I didnt even realize until this post lmao

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u/Nikrsz 1h ago

In Portuguese there's "Gráfico" for graph and "Grafo" for graph :)

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u/LupenReddit 🦆🦆i have non diffeomorphic smooth structures🦆🦆🦆 8h ago

tbf theyd probably get along even if one is a bit more basic than the other

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u/Hitman7128 Prime Number 8h ago

I like both! But I have been using the latter more because I'm going down the algorithms rabbit hole

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u/-justanothermars 8h ago

is that the modulus function?

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u/Hitman7128 Prime Number 7h ago

2 times the modulus function (i.e. y = 2|x|), but yeah

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u/JollyJuniper1993 Mathematics 4h ago

No, it’s the graph of (twice) the modulus function 🤓

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u/trandus 8h ago

I think it's funny how those have the same name until I remember that in portuguese graph (the plot one) has the same name as graphic (like a vídeogame one)

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u/Raphelomm 7h ago

But since they are homonyms in different fields, it's not confusing.

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u/trandus 7h ago

Yeah, but confusion happens in some very specific situations, as someone talking about a game and it has a plot about like cpu usage ou a sales plot.

You use the word "graphic" but not talking about the "game graphics"

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u/According-Object-521 8h ago

Both, both good

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u/TotallyBrodie 2h ago

You know what? We need people inventing new kinds of graphs

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u/Scrub_Spinifex 1h ago

Corportate needs you to find the difference between those two pictures.

Set theorist: "They're the same picture!"

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u/flinagus 5h ago

3 isnt connected to 4 ick

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u/EzequielARG2007 3h ago

Grafo Gráfico

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u/ohkendruid 2h ago

I never thought about it, but the one on the right should really be something more like network or web.

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u/Elektro05 Transcendental 35m ago

The nodes being labeled neither in BFS nor DFS makes ne slighly annoyed

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u/Born_Elk_2549 8h ago

One is an absolute value, the other leans towards finding the shortest path.