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minus-squarebort@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41arrow-down11·2 days ago And that -1/12 bs is why I cannot math. it’s not actually math. It’s people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results.
minus-squarePM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down3·2 days ago it’s not actually math. It literally is math tho It’s people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results. Yeah because these weird definitions might be useful in some other context.
minus-squarebaltakatei@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 days agoLike robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·2 days agoNone of those contexts include ordering a number of beers
minus-squarePM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoBut that’s literally the joke in the meme tho
minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoOstensibly it’s used a lot in quantum physics
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·2 days agoThat’s all that math is about.
minus-squareAsetru@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·2 days agoIt’s really not. Also, here’s a video on why that -1/12 stuff is pretty much nonsense: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA
it’s not actually math. It’s people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results.
It literally is math tho
Yeah because these weird definitions might be useful in some other context.
Like robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).
None of those contexts include ordering a number of beers
But that’s literally the joke in the meme tho
Ostensibly it’s used a lot in quantum physics
That’s all that math is about.
It’s really not.
Also, here’s a video on why that -1/12 stuff is pretty much nonsense:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA