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STOP DOING MATH

NUMBERS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN NAMES

YEARS OF COUNTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going higher than your FINGERS

Wanted to go higher anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "GUESSING"

"Yes please give me ZERO of something. Please give me INFINITY of it" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Mathematicians have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the calculators & abacus we built for them

(This is REAL Math, done by REAL Mathematicians):

(Plots of the absolute value of the complex Gamma function, a mesh plot of |arctan(z^(-5))|, a compound of five cubes)

"Hello I would like (Riemann surface for the function f(z) = √z ) apples please"

They have played us for absolute fools

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[–] tanja@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 8 months ago
[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

QUIT YA COUNTIN! TWENTY FOUR IS THE HIGHEST NUMBA AND THAT'S IT! LET IT GO!

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, looks like someone hasn't learned to count to schfifty-five

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[–] GomJabbar@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I used algebra mid-conversation about a week ago. We were talking about the roaming range of unspayed cats. They typically roam within a 5 mile radius from home. I then had the fortune of remembering the formula for finding the area of a circle and was able to determine that unspayed cats have a home range of 78.5 square miles. That may or may not have been the first time I've used algebra outside of a classroom. I'm 31.

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Geometry though, with a splash of abstract reasoning, so yeah! Gold star for you

[–] GomJabbar@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You are correct. It's geometry/pre-algebra. My bad

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

That's a very large number so I'm gonna go with 'your mum'.

[–] mobius_slip@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

Unimportant.

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

Reminds me of an Ursula K Le Guinn short story where numerals were heresay and people needed to use special slide rulers to do any computation.