Math all the way. Good luck doing your other sciences without it.

Computer science. Screw your polls!

@Mini_moose

Careful, or I might sick my cuttlefish at you

The cuttlefish kill physicists in a dream sequence and XKCD is conspiring with biology majors to kill chemists. I fail to see any threat or relevance to mathematicians.

Moved this to a cooler subforum.


Physics.

Chemistry is maths with letters. Physics is maths with graphs.

We'd be too busy measuring exactly how well the shell models φ anyway.

Chemistry (my major ), Physics, Biology. Though I'd have to say anything that deals with outer space would be above even Chemistry. Biology is the least favorite; living things are despicable.

Though being a Mathematics major also entitles me to maximum purity.

Clearly you've never done real math before The only place you're allowed to use numbers in math is subscripts and superscripts.

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Chemistry is maths with letters.

Clearly you've never done real math before The only place you're allowed to use numbers in math is subscripts and superscripts.

Sad thing is, I read Lanth's original post as "lasers", didn't realize it, then wondered what the hell you were talking about.

Skip to 2:30 unless you want to know everything that goes into this process. Otherwise, enjoy Chemistry:



[yes, this is fun to do in glass bottles with raised letterings and such. And the dry Ag₃N residue is DEFINITELY explosive ]

Why does he keep saying things in terms of cubic meters? Is using mL taboo?

I've actually wondered this for awhile. Why do you hear in medical shows "i need 10 CC's of bladyblah"?

Well he didn't even say CC, just "cubic centimeter". Bothers me.

Then again that's not the only thing that bothers me in chemistry. There's also the official scientific notation of, say, 6.022 × 10²³ instead of the clearly superior calculator notation of 6.022e23 (or 6.022E23). The e can't even be confused with the natural number e because variables and constants aren't written before numbers.

I mean it pretty much goes against every good habit you learn in mathematics and adds useless length to numbers. Like not using × to represent multiplication because it could be mistaken for an x, or not using · (interpunct) because it could be mistaken for a decimal. Parenthesis, as I have been taught, are the safe way to clearly indicate that a number is being multiplied if juxtaposition is insufficient.

But every professor I've asked was okay with me doing it this way, so long as I wrote a note on my tests and graded homework.

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None of those links remotely addressed the question.

Rather unfortunate that I have to expand upon a purposefully short answer.

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^ so a CC is a cubic cm and is the same as a ml

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If that wasn't enough...

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Rather unfortunate that you didn't understand the question. Everyone here already knows what "CC" stands for.

I LIEK ASTRONOMY BEST

It's quite fine to use cubic centimeter, since it's the same as mL anyway.

What bugs me is that the dude in the video uses cubic centimeter AND cubic decimeters

please just use liters or just stick to one unit. Even if it's because the concentrations greatly vary, it's still easier and better to hear someone say "number times 10 to the power of number" than hear random units being spouted.