237 isn't two-hundred thirty-seven, it's two-hundred thirty-seven-one.
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One common feature of various anti-science ideologies is that their adherents lack a sense of scale. #FlatEarthers don’t understand distance, #creationists don’t understand time, #climate change #denialists don’t understand levels of emissions or rate of temperature change, #antivaxers don’t understand population morbidity and mortality. Probably other types of looniness with which I’m less familiar have the same underlying problem.
In a way I sympathize with this, because the numbers are so far outside normal human experience. But learn the #math and suddenly everything makes a lot more sense. We’re not talking about anything particularly advanced. Just grasp that intution breaks down when measuring something very large or very small.
Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras
"The conclusion is inescapable. The Babylonians knew the relation between the length of the diagonal of a square and its side: d=square root of 2," mathematician Bruce Ratner writes in a paper on the topic.
Ever wanted to learn (or relearn) #calculus? #Math seems hard to many people, but this book might be a great introduction for you.
You can read it online for free at https://calculusmadeeasy.org/
The text from the screenshot is in chapter 1: https://calculusmadeeasy.org/1.html
Content warning Bank Robbery, Dancing and Religion
I have been watching for more #mathsisfun #math content on here, yay 🤩
Repost from this morning because everything scrolls so fast here...
I used to be a mathematician and now I'm a writer, and this story of mine that came out today combines both!
https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-infinite-and-infinitesimal-by.html
"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever classic Singer cartoon is that some people might not get that it’s illustrating the perception problem, NOT telling the truth.
Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is exactly the opposite.
Tweaked Ephipi_Scratch_Hex.pl to print fractions of a second (to the limits of the machine) but no go, or rather, rows of zeroes to the right of the decimal point, the first informative readout being "Reached 0x7 ordinal magnitude in 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 11.000000 seconds". Haven't gotten pass 0xA, anyway. #Perl #Phi #Math