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facts-i-just-made-up · 18 hours
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Though most non-integers are not round numbers, Pi (3.14159etc) is considered round because of circles or something.
I dunno. My back hurts.
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glitch-1983 · 16 hours
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i wanna know if im the only one
IT SAYS MULTIPLE NOT NUMBER BY ITSELF!!!!!
am i the only one. if not now did you when you were younger. please
also say why in tags if you wanna :3
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else-picture · 10 hours
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long-everybody · 2 days
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You know I don't actually think the fact we use base 10 is actually that prohibitive, at least in more pure contexts. The argument that decimal expansions are better in base 12 falls apart if you just stop using decimal expansions, which literally happens when doing most pure mathematics.
Also I'm not a huge fan of that argument anyway. Like sure base 12 let's you have more terminating expansions for smaller numbers but we also lose 1/5. Like sure nice we get 1/3 nicely but it would be even nicer if we had 1/5 too. But then we start having to use base 60 which becomes much more of a shift.
I don't know, I just don't think it's as big a deal as people who advocate for base 12 make it out to be. People who struggle with mental arithmetic and calculations with things like money are gonna struggle regardless of whether we use base 10 or base 12. The base we have isn't the whole issue
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sleepy-bebby · 11 months
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demonicseries · 5 months
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You guys are never gonna believe what the name of this sculpture is
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myjetpack · 3 months
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My latest New Scientist cartoon
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hamletthedane · 1 year
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There’s a lot of excellent examples of the difference between a million and a billion, but here’s my new personal favorite from a conversation I had today:
A million minutes ago was April 2021, the height of the COVID pandemic.
A billion minutes ago was November 121 CE, the height of the Roman Empire.
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cherrygazette · 2 months
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i love studying. i love writing. i love reading. i love learning languages. i love doing mathematics. i love wandering over some particular sum and trying to come up with formulas to solve it. i love physics. i love biology. i love chemistry. i love history. i love literature. i love learning.
not to achieve the perfect grades ever. but it just amazes me that there's so much to know and learn and write and read about in the universe. my curiosity wouldn't get enough of it.
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prokopetz · 3 months
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People on this site will put together polls like "The Banach-Tarski Paradox versus Camembert Cheese", then act like the results prove that they're surrounded by idiots.
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knotty-et-al · 7 months
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Visualization of the Rubik's cube
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the-lumpfish-king · 11 months
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He's right tho
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