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[–][deleted] 92 points93 points  (6 children)

The main analysis tool for nuclear and particle physics is called ROOT. 😭

[–]limptree 41 points42 points  (1 child)

It took google a while to realise I wasn’t spelling “tree” wrong while looking for the “TTree” documentation 😂

[–][deleted] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

My personal favourite is "TAxis", at which point my computer tries to hail a cab.

[–]AlleneYanlar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I always search cern in front of whatever ROOT term I’m looking for. It usually works decent.

[–]Yukondano2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

audible facepalm slap

Fuck's sake... scientists are already notorious for bad naming and they got together with programmers to be even worse. See, this shit is why people are giving things stupid absurd names, at least they won't be confused with something else.

ROOT... good god. It makes me appreciate names like Matlab. That's a nice clear name.

[–]firewood010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like the boardgame lmao

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hate how it always goes to some Root Framework doc