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		jffry on Nov 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is an eigenvalue? I think you may have gotten whooshed by the joke - both "eigenvector" and "gedankenexperiment" are mashups of a German word and an English word

Tainnor on Nov 8, 2022 [–]

"Gedankenexperiment" is a fully German word, though, not a mashup.

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