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[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 53 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

As an engineer I fully agree. Engineers¹ aren't even able to do basic arithmetics. I even cannot count to 10.

¹ Except maybe Electrical engineers. They seem to be quite smart.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Engineer here, I can definitely count to 10 tho

0 1 10

0 1 everything that comes after is simply summarizes as "many"

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Electrical engineers are the ones that use j though (because i is used for current)

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

I am used for current

[–] thomasloven@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

10? That’s the name some put to 1e1, right?

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Except maybe Electrical engineers.

Yup, I can count just fine to the 10th number in a zero-indexed counting system: black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

The inner machinations of an electrical engineer is too complicated for me to understand, I think they might be thinking on a higher order to understand these circuits

Thats why I barely passed my electrical engineering class lol

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Having worked with electrical engineers, some of them are quite smart, the rest have lead poisoning.