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I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You need a 4 year degree to understand the wall of text in that explanation.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was about to say "not really," but then I remembered that I have a couple of those, so yeah, probably.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really hope you're joking. It's written with high school level vocabulary at most.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

It appears that an individual's heuristic analytical mechanism is engendering a subversion of their affective response system, resulting in epistemic determinations that lack substantiation from the linguistic parameters prevalent within the upper two quartiles of the demographic distribution.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Thank you, Mr. Data.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

We’ve become exceedingly efficient at it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago
[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago

Exponents and Logarithms can be first taught in Middle School in many places, but sometimes get revisited during Calculus in AP High School or at University level.