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As an engineer I fully agree. Engineers¹ aren't even able to do basic arithmetics. I even cannot count to 10.
¹ Except maybe Electrical engineers. They seem to be quite smart.
Engineer here, I can definitely count to 10 tho
0 1 10
0 1 everything that comes after is simply summarizes as "many"
Electrical engineers are the ones that use j though (because i is used for current)
I am used for current
10? That’s the name some put to 1e1, right?
Yup, I can count just fine to the 10th number in a zero-indexed counting system: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white.
https://xkcd.com/227/
Having worked with electrical engineers, some of them are quite smart, the rest have lead poisoning.
The inner machinations of an electrical engineer is too complicated for me to understand, I think they might be thinking on a higher order to understand these circuits
Thats why I barely passed my electrical engineering class lol