Mathematical Symbol Hierarchy Causes Chaos In Academia

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Mathematical Symbol Hierarchy Causes Chaos In Academia

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Someone's ranking mathematical symbols like they're Pokémon cards, and I'm absolutely here for this chaos. The differential operator in "Legendary" tier while partial derivatives are banished to "Out of my expertise"? Pure mathematical violence! 😂

Infinity is somehow a "C" tier symbol while factorial made it to "Pretty cool"? This tierlist is more arbitrary than the naming conventions in quantum mechanics! The creator clearly has a vendetta against Greek letters - poor ξ (xi) got thrown in the trash while its cousin π (pi) lives in mathematical royalty.

This is like watching someone rank elements on the periodic table based on how fun they are to pronounce. The mathematical community will never recover from this betrayal. Whoever made this probably thinks the Riemann Hypothesis is just a fancy way to guess lottery numbers.

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