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Interesting numbers, but it'd be vastly improved by being able to filter for age ranges too. Gauss and Degauss are the two that jumped out at me. I'd be curiou
by BuildTheRobots 5y ago
Interesting numbers, but it'd be vastly improved by being able to filter for age ranges too.
Gauss and Degauss are the two that jumped out at me. I'd be curious to know how many people of either gender have encountered it, if they're young enough to have never lived with CRT TVs.
- burnished 5y agoYou can also encounter those words in a high school or college physics course, which is where I associate them.
- armadsen 5y agoSame, although I also know degauss as it relates to CRTs. "Gaussian blur" -- almost always mispronounced -- is also relatively commonly encountered by anyone doing image or video editing. Though of course, that's a completely different term described by the same person's name.
- wnoise 5y agoHow is it pronounced, and how do you think it should be pronounced?
- djur 5y agoThe name is pronounced something like "gouse", and the blur is fairly commonly pronounced "goss-ian".
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- wnoise 5y agoHuh. Must vary by community. I've only heard them pronounced in concordant ways, and closer to your first.
- ceras 5y agoFWIW, the Google Search pronunciation guide[0] says Guassian like "gouse-ian", which is the only way I've heard it pronounced (US east coast). It's also what I see as the phonetically-written pronunciation when checking a couple dictionaries[1], and this English blog post[2]. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+gaussian&rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS972US972&oq=pronounce+gaussian https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+gaussian&rlz=1C5GC... [1] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gaussian https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gaussian [2] https://painfulenglish.com/2014/01/26/how-to-pronounce-gaussian/ https://painfulenglish.com/2014/01/26/how-to-pronounce-gauss...
- djur 5y agoI am sure that it's just a case of people having read the word and never heard it spoken.
- Symmetry 5y agoI think I first ran into "degauss" in a documentary talking about German magnetic mines in WWII.
- woopwoop 5y agoI'm a man, and would have answered no to degauss, although I'm 32 (so old enough to have had a crt tv in college). I remember the word upon looking it up though. Gauss I would have assumed was a trick question (he's a person!), but on further reflection I remember that it's a unit for something or another in electrostatics.
- posix86 5y ago...Gauss is one of the most important mathematicians who ever lived. The gaussian distribution is the single most important random distribution there is. The standard 2d coordinate system is often also referred to as the gaussian plane. I'm guessing more men know him due to this reason: more men are in STEM.
- marton78 5y agoYou call the Cartesian coordinate system a Gaussian plane?
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoYeah; that's not right. Only in the more limited context of a complex plane would I think of "Gaussian".
- Banana699 5y ago>The standard 2d coordinate system is often also referred to as the gaussian plane Hmm, never heard of this. I wonder what are the reasons, Gauss really had nothing to do with coordinate systems. Even the complex numbers link is due to Euler, De Moivre and many many people before Gauss. I have a half-joking hypothesis it's due to Germans not wanting to attribute things to a french mathematician, but that still doesn't explain why they went with Gauss and not Euler.
- maxnoe 5y agoEuler was Swiss
- dandellion 5y agoI remember growing up and thinking that Gauss showed up all time, everywhere: Gauss's law, Gaussian elimination, Gaussian distribution, Gauss formula, Gaussian filter, CRT degauss, Gauss cannon. Those are the ones I remember, and I went into CS, I don't want to imagine how it was in math.
- Manuel_D 5y agoLikely that many boys have seen "gauss rifle" or "gauss cannon" in video games. I doubt they know about degaussing CRTVs or mine-sweeping vessels.