Apple should make jPhones, jPods, and jPads for Electrical Engineers

[Rabrrrrrr]

Just sayin'.

[rug]

1. If they were any good, they could make it themselves.

[hunter]

4. A Sharpie® marker ought to do.

Keep it simple.

[NoPasaran]

2. I can only imagine

[PVnRT]

3. The use of "j" for the square root of -1 is decadent and reprehensible

Atone thy evil ways, apostate.

[pokerfan]

6. we have to use j for imaginary

because i is used for current. Why didn't we use 'c' for current, you ask? Because we were already using 'c' for capacitance. It all makes perfect sense.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Yep; makes total sense. But to n00bs, jackasses, and non-theoretical physicists, it's "mystery".

(I include theoretical physicists in the realm of folks who 'get it' not because they use it, because they don't need to, but because they're intelligent enough to understand why and not be offended by it, and, probably at some level, are a bit envious that they can't join with the EEs in missing out on another way to be noticably intellectually different from the hoi polloi).



:rofl:

[pokerfan]

10. The concept of imaginary--numbers in general--blows most people's minds

but for us electron-pushers it makes perfect sense.



I wish we could make τ (tau) the fundamental constant and get rid of that annoying 2π that crops up everywhere:

http://tauday.com

[hunter]

14. Warrior civilizations that use τ (tau) and octal numbering don't survive their atomic ages.

It's a well known fact. Imagine if the Victorians had nuclear reactors and hydrogen bombs, or the Nazis had fusion reactors and anti-matter bombs. We'd all be radioactive toast.

[pokerfan]

15. Octal, pfft....

Duodecimal is where it's at.

http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk

[hunter]

16. Duodecimal civilizations tend to build giant steam powered computers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11530905

[pokerfan]

23. Babbage used base 12?

We should have stuck with it.

[PVnRT]

11. Oh, I understand it perfectly

Besides, everyone knows that j is the Colburn factor used for determining heat transfer in turbulent flow in annular spaces.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. You probably think that V means volume, too.

:eyes:

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

geek arguments are awesome!

:rofl:

[PVnRT]

13. Of course it means volume

Any sane engineer would know that.

Besides, don't electrical engineers refer to "E" instead of "V" now? I'm revoking your PE license.

[pokerfan]

19. not exactly

more often to represent the electric field, v is still volts.

[pokerfan]

18. Yeah, but isn't that a capital J?

Still, it doesn't help that J (joule) is also used for energy.

Face it, our entire math/science/engineering nomenclature needs an enema.

[PVnRT]

20. I once used a Sanskrit character in a report

Because everything Greek or English was either taken or usually meant something else.

[pokerfan]

22. That's awesome

maybe इ should be √-1. :)

[UndertheOcean]

5. Haha , funny !

[Parche]

7. hey

i work for 'apple' now......:hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Is 'apple' different from Apple?

[Dr. Strange]

17. No, i is the right letter.

[pokerfan]

21. the best explanation of Euler's formula I've ever seen

from Kalid Azad's better explained blog:

http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-understanding-of-eulers-formula

BTW, if we were using τ, Euler's formula would be e^iτ = 1 where τ = 2π.