# Nerdity at the MIT museum store **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527 "2017-11-23T15:50:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/1 "2017-11-23T15:50:06Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/2 "2017-11-23T18:45:44Z")
Been there. They have some wonderfully nerdulant\* stuff, much of which I haven’t seen elsewhere. What did the OP have in mind? \*When I was ay MIT, and encountered the term “nerd” for the first time, they spelled it “gnurd”. The “g”, of course, is silent. It has to be the nerdiest way to spell “nerd” there is. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/3 "2017-11-24T02:18:15Z")
If they were Free Software or Linux gnurds, they would have pronounced the g: “g’nurd”. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/4 "2017-11-24T02:31:26Z")
Let me see if I can restore the intended spacing: ```php E ____ PV ----- \/ -1 ---- c^2 nR ``` Does that look about right, now? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/5 "2017-11-24T02:41:28Z")
Renders fine here… so paying attention in class is inflated to nerdity? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/6 "2017-11-24T02:52:12Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Let me see if I can restore the intended spacing: > > ```php > > E ____ PV > ----- \/ -1 ---- > c^2 nR > > ``` > > Does that look about right, now? It bothers me on a typesetting level. Perhaps replace the square root of negative one with ```php V ----- R ``` but then you run into the problem that V and R represent different things in different terms. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/7 "2017-11-24T06:12:43Z")
Is _this_ gonna be on the test? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4bbf92/32.png) [@Darth\_Hamsandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Hamsandwich)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/8 "2017-11-24T07:19:09Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > It bothers me on a typesetting level. Perhaps replace the square root of negative one with > > ```php > > V > ----- > R > > ``` > > but then you run into the problem that V and R represent different things in different terms. Oh for fucks sake, just set that shit = 0 and that’s half your problem solved right there. (Christ, people, read a friggin’ book sometime in this century) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/9 "2017-11-24T20:59:38Z")
That gnurd’s got some gnurve. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/10 "2017-11-24T21:17:29Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > If they were Free Software or Linux gnurds, they would have pronounced the g: “g’nurd”. This was before Linux and Free Software. Sounds like the people there copied the MIT spelling but not the pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/11 "2017-11-25T03:57:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Let me see if I can restore the intended spacing: > > ```php > > E ____ PV > ----- \/ -1 ---- > c^2 nR > > ``` > > Does that look about right, now? So…I’m guessing that last element resolves to ‘t’? It’s the only one I don’t recognize, and that seems to be where the other two are headed… ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/12 "2017-11-25T04:17:16Z")
Sure; it’s just supposed to be the combined ideal gas law. You often/typically see ‘T’ rather than ‘t’ for the temperature. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/13 "2017-11-25T07:29:32Z")
Heh. My sister in law gave me that shirt - after I immediately figured it out, of course. Hari, did you go to the museum or was this in the catalog or the online store? We had our 20th reunion dinner in it, which was great. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/14 "2017-11-26T08:12:11Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > Sure; it’s just supposed to be the combined ideal gas law. You often/typically see ‘T’ rather than ‘t’ for the temperature. Dankeshoen. I have learned something new. (Which probably will not stick, but hey…) ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/15 "2017-11-26T17:34:32Z")
I have a T-shirt with that one it. I often wear it to teach. I’m surprised how many people can get the M and I and can’t even guess what the last letter is even knowing me. However, my favorite shirt to wear says Florine Uranium Carbon Potassium ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/16 "2017-11-26T20:33:59Z")
Ha! Got it right off. Also **OldGuy** ’s shirt. Because of cultural environment I was unaware of the English term “nerd” until I first set foot in a stateside college. Did not embrace it at first but I came around as I realized it is quite flexible as you can be one in many different fields. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nerdity-at-the-mit-museum-store/802527/17 "2017-11-26T21:38:01Z")
I tried to extrude some tin/silver alloy wire but ran into a little problem.