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minus-squarebort@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44arrow-down12·21 天前 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-up28arrow-down3·21 天前 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-up12·21 天前Like robbing a bartender. Or your 401(k).
minus-squarepsud@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·21 天前None of those contexts include ordering a number of beers
minus-squarePM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·21 天前But that’s literally the joke in the meme tho
minus-squareDreamButt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·21 天前Ostensibly it’s used a lot in quantum physics
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·21 天前That’s all that math is about.
minus-squareAsetru@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·21 天前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
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