Day-to-Day Nonsense

The difference between Computer Scientists and Humans

December 26th, 2006

Recently a bunch of computer scientists were arguing over the correct name for an entity that non techies would use. They proposed something foograph. This was quickly discarded, but it once again demonstrated the chasm between the computer scientist and the rest of the world.
Rest of humanity:

A graph is a plot of data

Computer Scientists:

A graph G(V(G), E(G)) consists of a set vertices, denoted by V(G) and a set of Edges denoted by E(G) such that each edge contains two distinct vertices in V(G).

For proof look at this screen shot:

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