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03 Jan 2026, 6:56 am

Laguerre polynomials -


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03 Jan 2026, 11:35 am

Mean root square

Hmm, didn’t that use to be root mean square?


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03 Jan 2026, 11:40 am

Newtons



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03 Jan 2026, 12:45 pm

orbital mechanics

(I took a math course on the subject as an undergraduate.)



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03 Jan 2026, 1:18 pm

Perigee



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03 Jan 2026, 1:25 pm

Quantile.


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03 Jan 2026, 1:27 pm

rational numbers



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03 Jan 2026, 3:19 pm

Surreal number

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
Having been lectured by Conway it sounds like it's his sort of concept.


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03 Jan 2026, 4:12 pm

True anomaly



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04 Jan 2026, 10:13 am

Uniform polyhedra


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04 Jan 2026, 1:58 pm

vector quantity



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04 Jan 2026, 4:12 pm

Weak Law of Large Numbers


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04 Jan 2026, 9:13 pm

xor



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05 Jan 2026, 3:13 am

YZ plane


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05 Jan 2026, 4:06 am

Zorn's lemma



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05 Jan 2026, 4:34 am

Absolute value


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