I scratched my head over Nydnonen for a moment thinking it was some obscure reference.
Is Euler not pronounced like it starts with a Y? “An Euler” is making my eye twitch.
It’s pronounced “Oiler.”
Ah, that explains it then. In my defense, Google voice is giving me Euler when I say “YOU-ler.”
Wouldn’t surprise me if some English speakers named Euler go with YOU-ler, so it’s probably a bit ambiguous.
Does Google Voice sound like Ben Stein?
“You-ler, You-ler, You-ler”
“I think he’s sick”
Hrmph. Typical of Monroe, to completely ignore the seminal work Euler did on automated cricket bowling.
Oh, and also Euler angles, two and a half different equations called the “Euler equation”, and Euler-Lagrange Dynamics.
As well as founding a football team, the Houston Eulers. Who suffered persistent and widespread misspelling.
I remember the Euler’s cheer
“e to the power i times pi,
we’re going to win and that’s no lie,
Negative one is that expression’s result,
When we win we will exult!”
Am I the only one that pronounces EULA (End-User License Agreement) as oilah? Damn Euler probably invented that, too.
Not any more.
Nerdy trivia: There’s exactly one chemical element whose back-formed systematic name’s symbol works out to the same as the actual symbol used.
Some have even proposed a “continent of stability”, where many undiscovered elements would be stable, if there were some process to generate them.
Stupid question: How would you define “30 minutes after the Big Bang”? If I understand General Relativity correctly, the density of the early universe would be so great that time would hardly pass at all. Or would that be just to an outside observer, and nearer to the (former) singularity, time would appear to pass “normally”?
There’s a reason why I chose Math over Physics, but settled on Technical Theater.
The Big Bang happened everywhere, so there’s no such thing as an outside observer to it.
I understand that, I was thinking of a black hole and its event horizon.