• tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It should be distanceraptor / time

    Otherwise the raptors cancel and you just get velocity.

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      It’s not “Distance Raptor” or “Time Raptor” or even “Veloci Raptor”. It’s Distanceraptor. All one word. Or Timeraptor or Velociraptor.

      I mean otherwise it would be:

      Distanceraptor

      Timeraptor

      And that leaves us with:

      Dstanc

      Tm

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    Once you come to terms with it in time you will see this meme is just a derivative of the Positionraptor meme.

    holds up a tiny box

    We can approximate part of a velociraptor as a tiny box, yes it is imperfect to say replace the arm of our velociraptor with a small box, but what if we tried again with tinier boxes?

    You would still be unsatisfied with that mimcry of a once pristine velocriaptor illustration but you might be slightly less satisfied this time around assuming you had infinite patience in terms of time.

    Now imagine we repeated that experiment on you, slowly replacing more and more of the velociraptor illustration with tinier and tinier boxes… at some point we would reach the limit as of our boxes becoming infinitely small…

    STAY WITH ME HERE - I yell at you from within a crazed scientmathist labcoat

    We could graph how much your disatisfaction with our tiny box velociraptor rip off decreased as we decreased the size of our tiny boxes we used to immitate the original kickass velociraptor illustration with… and if we extrapolate that out to the most spirit-raptor ultimate culminating moment in infinity in euphoric release of the tiniest boxes you could ever imagine, we can recreate the velociraptor using only tiny box positionraptors and a set of initial conditions that the velociraptor illustration was created with through the magic of CALCULUS.

    I look up and realize everybody walked away 15 minutes ago - Damn, wait everybody wasn’t enthralled by that stupid overly long math joke?

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    Velociraptor = positionraptor/time. As written the raptor cancels and you get a scalar not a vector, simply speed.

    Edit, there is no operator before the raptor so probably best not to cancel.

    Scalar: speedraptor = distanceraptor/ timeraptor

    Vector: velociraptor = positionraptor/ timeraptor