Graham Sutherland / Polynomial"texting a message used to take a time approximately proportional to the sum of the alphabetical indices of the message's characters modulo 3" is one of those things that is absolutely true but also 100% sounds like a shitpost if you weren't around for that era.
Dan Hatton@gsuberland To be clear, that's the sum of (the alphabetical indices of the message's characters modulo 3), not (the sum of the alphabetical indices of the message's characters) modulo 3.
@only_ohm yeah, there wasn't a good way to phrase this