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☮Stupid Microsoft translation for today:
T-SQL function "sin" (aka sinus)
translated to German as "SÜNDE" (sin, the religious thing)
T-SQL function "sin" (aka sinus)
translated to German as "SÜNDE" (sin, the religious thing)
Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD)@Johann150 ... is sinus another accepted form of sine function? Because I know sinus as the cavity in the skull where the snot is kept. This is another layer of amusing in the context of the thread.
Moritz Negwer@Johann150 @iris both come from the Latin word "sinus" meaning "sac, bend, bosom". The mathematical term is a latin (edit: mis-)translation of an Arab transliteration of the Sanskrit "jiyā" word meaning "chord" or "bowstring" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sine
German indeed uses "sinus" for the math function. No danger of mixing up the terms though, as the nose sinus is called "Nasennebenhöhlen" (=cavities next to the nose).
@moritz_negwer @Johann150 wait... so what are nostrils??
@iris @Johann150 Nasenlöcher, i.e. nose holes.
(sinus infection works out to a Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung = inflammation of the cavities next to the nose. Also great for scrabble if you can get all the Umlauts.)
@moritz_negwer @Johann150 26 letters! Doctor, there's an alphabet in my sinuses!