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I wanna talk about some math. Math is fucking awesome.
Maybe you didn't like math in school. That's cool, because there, math was all tangled up with homework, and homework sucks. Here, we just talk about zany shit in math. No homework, just the neat shit.
For example, if you measure something (anything, really, like the length of a river, or the frequency of a tone, or some dude's income over a year, whatever), the odds are about 30% that the first digit in the measurement will be a 1, but only about 4.6% that it'll be a 9. Really. It's called Benford's Law.
Let's talk about crazy math!
Framling on
you're = you are
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
"Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process." Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.
Once I was taking a poop at a restaurant and a kid crept underneath the door into my stall. I let out a big fart and then he threw up all over the floor in front of me and I just stared at him.
"Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process." Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
Logic games, that's got math, but also fun stories. And logic.
"Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process." Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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i achieved my math minor by relying solely on my algebra skills
rather than actually learning the formulas for all the new stuff i was supposed to learn, i basically derived it all from scratch come the day of the test
Logic games, that's got math, but also fun stories. And logic.
He's stood on a block of ice
He was a fish
He parachuted into the desert
Those are riddles, you sodding fuck.
"Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process." Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.
Once I was taking a poop at a restaurant and a kid crept underneath the door into my stall. I let out a big fart and then he threw up all over the floor in front of me and I just stared at him.
Math class became much more tolerable once I realized I could write a TI-BASIC program for all the mundane bits.
Perform the quadratic formula and get the two X-intercepts plus the vertex in less than thirty lines? Yes.
they don't let you do that anymore
i used to get yelled at in math class because i always found the easiest way to do things and would get most of it down in 4-5 lines (i skipped a lot of writing because of this method) and i got F's all the time because i arrived at the answer "in the wrong way"
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
Nine Thirteen, Personal note: When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun - so once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see. But something else had changed inside me. That day I had my first headache.
Math class became much more tolerable once I realized I could write a TI-BASIC program for all the mundane bits.
Perform the quadratic formula and get the two X-intercepts plus the vertex in less than thirty lines? Yes.
they don't let you do that anymore
i used to get yelled at in math class because i always found the easiest way to do things and would get most of it down in 4-5 lines (i skipped a lot of writing because of this method) and i got F's all the time because i arrived at the answer "in the wrong way"
sounds like my highschool
fuck that shit
"Why didn't you show your work Alex?"
"Because I didn't need to? Here, let me demonstrate so you don't think I'm cheating."
One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.
Once I was taking a poop at a restaurant and a kid crept underneath the door into my stall. I let out a big fart and then he threw up all over the floor in front of me and I just stared at him.
My 6th grade math teacher refused to believe that i didn't have to show my work to do maths. After getting into an argument with her after one homework assignment, she got fed up. She was intent on proving me wrong, once and for all. So she set up her perfect test. A looooooong division problem on the blackboard, to be done in front of the class and her without writing anything down. If I could solve it, I never had to show my work and I'd get credit on all my past work. If I couldn't, I'd get marked off on all my past work and have to show it in my future. It took me 15 minutes, but I did it. She was shocked, to be certain.
Spoiler:
Because it was so damn long (much longer than anything we'd ever do in class), I used a very simple system of chalk dots as I tapped it against the blackboard to keep track of a few numbers. Sooooo really she won.
"Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process." Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
Math class became much more tolerable once I realized I could write a TI-BASIC program for all the mundane bits.
Perform the quadratic formula and get the two X-intercepts plus the vertex in less than thirty lines? Yes.
they don't let you do that anymore
i used to get yelled at in math class because i always found the easiest way to do things and would get most of it down in 4-5 lines (i skipped a lot of writing because of this method) and i got F's all the time because i arrived at the answer "in the wrong way"
sounds like my highschool
fuck that shit
"Why didn't you show your work Alex?"
"Because I didn't need to? Here, let me demonstrate so you don't think I'm cheating."
"Sorry, I can't pass you."
ooh my god i got that all the time. especially cause odd answers were in the back of the book.
here's the kicker.
she only assigned us even numbers.
i got up on the board and did it all on the board and i was like "see?"
"yeah but you need to show your work"
I'm like "here you go," *did it all and showed my work* "only difference there is it took about 3x the time"
i am weird with math. i don't solve problems like normal people would i break it up in my head and solve it without even realizing what I'm doing half the time. when i slow down i drop numbers off all the time.
when we had started a new unit our teacher didn't explain the formula and wanted to see if anyone could solve it as a fun game.
i got the answer in 5 seconds and couldn't explain how I'd done it
she thought i used one of my friends in an earlier class
it took 15 minutes for me to work out how I'd done it
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
Math class became much more tolerable once I realized I could write a TI-BASIC program for all the mundane bits.
Perform the quadratic formula and get the two X-intercepts plus the vertex in less than thirty lines? Yes.
they don't let you do that anymore
i used to get yelled at in math class because i always found the easiest way to do things and would get most of it down in 4-5 lines (i skipped a lot of writing because of this method) and i got F's all the time because i arrived at the answer "in the wrong way"
This.
For most of algebra I was able to infer the answer with no or little actual written work.
One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.
Once I was taking a poop at a restaurant and a kid crept underneath the door into my stall. I let out a big fart and then he threw up all over the floor in front of me and I just stared at him.
The worst math teacher I ever had was my geometry teacher in high school.
I'd get a 50% or a 75% on every test I did in that class.
Because it was half off for not knowing the name of the theorum used to solve the problems.
A fucking vocabulary test during geometry class.
"Advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process." Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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I took to just writing out the problem and fudging up a little bit of what looks like work then dropping answer in because man teachers don't have time check the work on every question for their whole class.
I was pretty good at math in High School but I kinda lost the touch in college. I think I just didn't connect with the teacher in the same way I did in high school.
But I remember it being pretty satisfying to be able to see my own progress as I learned trig and calculus.
I also believe it got me a better scholarship than I would have gotten otherwise, due to the recommendation of my math teacher.
There are some bits of knowledge I've lost and haven't used in a long time that I wouldn't mind relearning.
Math class became much more tolerable once I realized I could write a TI-BASIC program for all the mundane bits.
Perform the quadratic formula and get the two X-intercepts plus the vertex in less than thirty lines? Yes.
they don't let you do that anymore
i used to get yelled at in math class because i always found the easiest way to do things and would get most of it down in 4-5 lines (i skipped a lot of writing because of this method) and i got F's all the time because i arrived at the answer "in the wrong way"
sounds like my highschool
fuck that shit
"Why didn't you show your work Alex?"
"Because I didn't need to? Here, let me demonstrate so you don't think I'm cheating."
"Sorry, I can't pass you."
I hated this fucking bullshit
Hated it
I mean I got the answer right, what more do you want from me?
The teacher that made me hate math was 7th or 8th grade. He had something against me, which I can't really blame him for because I was a little prick at the time, but he put most of my homework as 'missing' so I failed and had to take algebra 1/2 again.
For everyone who says that they could get the problems without showing their work and they just had mean teachers, you are retarded
nobody cares how easy it is for you to do problems in your head; to be a mathematician you have to show your fucking work
seriously, this is like taking an english class, only writing introduction and conclusion paragraphs on essays, and then whining when the teacher fails you
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And that's because it has letters.
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Not even once
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trig 4 lyfe
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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rather than actually learning the formulas for all the new stuff i was supposed to learn, i basically derived it all from scratch come the day of the test
i am a terrible math person
But they are forming a trefoil, which is knot theory, which is math.
Also, they have a quarter-twist, making them a variety of Moebius strip, so more math.
That's two maths to your one technology. Math wins, because 2>1.
There's another math.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
He's stood on a block of ice
He was a fish
He parachuted into the desert
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Those are riddles, you sodding fuck.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
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whooops
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.
Perform the quadratic formula and get the two X-intercepts plus the vertex in less than thirty lines? Yes.
The monk will be in the exact place going up and down the mountain one time
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they don't let you do that anymore
Yeah well try typing with just your maths, see how far you get!
Yeah, told you.
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i used to get yelled at in math class because i always found the easiest way to do things and would get most of it down in 4-5 lines (i skipped a lot of writing because of this method) and i got F's all the time because i arrived at the answer "in the wrong way"
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
Nine Thirteen, Personal note: When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare into the sun - so once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see. But something else had changed inside me. That day I had my first headache.
this is my first year and I am excited
sounds like my highschool
fuck that shit
"Why didn't you show your work Alex?"
"Because I didn't need to? Here, let me demonstrate so you don't think I'm cheating."
"Sorry, I can't pass you."
But we can never really teach them to love.
And thats where math fails.
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"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
here's the kicker.
she only assigned us even numbers.
i got up on the board and did it all on the board and i was like "see?"
"yeah but you need to show your work"
I'm like "here you go," *did it all and showed my work* "only difference there is it took about 3x the time"
i am weird with math. i don't solve problems like normal people would i break it up in my head and solve it without even realizing what I'm doing half the time. when i slow down i drop numbers off all the time.
when we had started a new unit our teacher didn't explain the formula and wanted to see if anyone could solve it as a fun game.
i got the answer in 5 seconds and couldn't explain how I'd done it
she thought i used one of my friends in an earlier class
it took 15 minutes for me to work out how I'd done it
In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side
This.
For most of algebra I was able to infer the answer with no or little actual written work.
Holy shit geometry kicked my ass though.
I'd get a 50% or a 75% on every test I did in that class.
Because it was half off for not knowing the name of the theorum used to solve the problems.
A fucking vocabulary test during geometry class.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but it dies in the process."
Imagine all of my posts being spoken by Alec Baldwin
GamerTag: MunkusBeaver ||||| Steam: munkus
But I remember it being pretty satisfying to be able to see my own progress as I learned trig and calculus.
I also believe it got me a better scholarship than I would have gotten otherwise, due to the recommendation of my math teacher.
There are some bits of knowledge I've lost and haven't used in a long time that I wouldn't mind relearning.
Like derivatives and whatnot.
Secret Satan
I hated this fucking bullshit
Hated it
I mean I got the answer right, what more do you want from me?
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Algebra fucking ONE HALF.
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nobody cares how easy it is for you to do problems in your head; to be a mathematician you have to show your fucking work
seriously, this is like taking an english class, only writing introduction and conclusion paragraphs on essays, and then whining when the teacher fails you