Am I the only person who instinctively factorises Jeb! as Jeb*eb*b?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

Is anyone else unable to read it without expanding it that way?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Jeb factorial?

That would expand him far more than he deserves. I always read Jeb! as a squeaky little yip, like the result of stepping on a chihuahua.

[jberryhill]

3. Jeb! = Poppy*W*Jeb

He is the combined product of the whole family.

[jberryhill]

2. e is not an integer

As the base of natural logs, you shouldn't be seeing e as an integer.

Jeb! is a poorly formed expression, that I see as Je*b!

[jberryhill]

5. No matter how you expand it, the result is irrational

[surrealAmerican]

6. You win this thread!

If DUzys still existed, this would be one.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. And with 'j' in it, it's imaginary, to an engineer (nt)

[jberryhill]

8. good point....

Although as an electrical engineer, I usually take capital J as current density (as in J*B being the electromotive force generated by a current density of J in a magnetic field B).

But, yeah, it's imaginary and irrational, much like Jeb's vanishing support.