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Baron von Eevl posted:There were a couple maps that put west on top, but that was occidental. GodDAMN you, I chuckled.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Wagon Queen Family Truckster from National Lampoon's Family Vacation was an obviously fictional vehicle but the car they modified for it was a 1979 Ford LTD Country Squire wagon (several of them, actually) which wasn't all that different from the Family Truckster. They took a lovely ugly station wagon and just uglied it up a little more You know how look at cars from that era and go, "Man, they kind of all look the same. Even the headlights! Why did they all want those same, ugly, rectangular headlights?" Well, the answer is...they had to...sort of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2J91UG6Fn8 And when you all have to use the same headlights, well, you also tend to share a lot of design similarities for the entire front-end when you have to account for the exact same headlight size and shape.
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I think the headlights are the least objectionable part of the aesthetic
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Maybe it's just because I never had to grow up with them, but I really like the look of those things. Especially the panoramic multi-piece sun roof in the back, I'm just imagining being a 70s kid staring up at the sky on a road trip, maybe you inherit it later and toss a mattress in the back, I would have definitely gone on at least one date with anyone who had a car like that.
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70's/80's family car smell tho hot vinyl and rusting metal
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flavor.flv posted:Maybe it's just because I never had to grow up with them, but I really like the look of those things. Especially the panoramic multi-piece sun roof in the back, I'm just imagining being a 70s kid staring up at the sky on a road trip, maybe you inherit it later and toss a mattress in the back, I would have definitely gone on at least one date with anyone who had a car like that. It’s a moon roof, you Philistine.
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The "Golden Ratio" is in fact, an irrational number.
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Most numbers are.
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Well they should just call it the Golden Irratio
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exquisite tea posted:The "Golden Ratio" is in fact, an irrational number. stubborn as a mule too
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Eagerly awaiting the day I can post I finally figured out high school math What the gently caress is an imaginary number
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Eagerly awaiting the day I can post I finally figured out high school math ThreEve
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Eagerly awaiting the day I can post I finally figured out high school math i don't know
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Eleventeen, thirty-twelve, etc etc.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Eagerly awaiting the day I can post I finally figured out high school math You can add to that line. You can go to the left (negative numbers), you can go halfway between 0 and 1 (fractions), and you can go a bit higher than 3 to help you with calculating circles (irrational numbers). This basically fills out the entire axis. But what if you wanted to have an even larger selection of numbers? Imagine, if you will, a whole unused Y-axis. Where you can go up and down, and once again, positive, negative, anything in between. Those are the same numbers in theory, you just designate them with an i (for imaginary, because you made them up). So you have two axes, a two-dimensional coordinate system. Does that mean you can fill all the coordinates in between? Like, going 2 on the X-axis and 3i on the Y-Axis? Yes, that is indeed possible. And that gives you a lot of literal (or...not) space to work with when you need more complex calculations, like for wave functions, in quantum mechanics, and so on.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Eagerly awaiting the day I can post I finally figured out high school math So they did.
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zedprime posted:Someone wanted to find the square root of -1. They should have just said “eh can’t be done” and saved themselves the trouble.
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exquisite tea posted:They should have just said “eh can’t be done” and saved themselves the trouble. The really, really dumb thing about mathematics is that an imaginary number has real-world applications.
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The really really dumb thing about mathematics is that far smarter people than us agreed that the square root of -1 can't be done to save themselves the trouble of working in a mathematic that included the definition until absolute lunatics who couldn't possibly be human were like "yes, just the thing I needed to fix the broken algebra in my otherworldly domain analyses."
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zedprime posted:The really really dumb thing about mathematics is that far smarter people than us agreed that the square root of -1 can't be done to save themselves the trouble of working in a mathematic that included the definition until absolute lunatics who couldn't possibly be human were like "yes, just the thing I needed to fix the broken algebra in my otherworldly domain analyses." Other way around. Large amounts of math become way, way simpler when you have a square root of -1. Imaginary numbers don't just fix a hole in algebra, they also turn out to fix holes in almost every other field.
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I kept waiting for someone to add 'time works the same way' to those math posts.
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Whybird posted:Other way around. Large amounts of math become way, way simpler when you have a square root of -1. Imaginary numbers don't just fix a hole in algebra, they also turn out to fix holes in almost every other field. Anyway I'm mostly jokingly commiserating with the likes of Descartes etc. arbitrarily putting up the wall because it's hard and weird because everything in mathematics starting with and after Euler frustrates and or terrifies me. E. Put another way, to i or not to i is fundamentally an algebraic notation question with alternatives available like certain matrix notations that can get you to similar places at higher complexity than just saying fine, i. zedprime has a new favorite as of 18:03 on Aug 21, 2023 |
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i make math simpler, therefore i am
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Still don’t believe in them. Irrational numbers as well. I need some bullshit infinite number to make a circle? Well guess what I’ve got circles in my line of vision right now and they don’t infinitely continue in an unpredictable pattern you useless eggheads 
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Can I touch a number? Can I see it? Does it have a smell? Does it have a sound? No? Then how are numbers real? Checkmate mathemailures.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Can I touch a number?
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zedprime posted:Someone wanted to find the square root of -1. Incidentally, there's a math thread where people would love to discuss imaginary numbers.
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I don't understand why mathematicians always try to debunk the "Pythagoras once killed a guy for proving irrational numbers exist" story, wouldn't you want to put the fear of loving with math into people?
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Pythogaras was basically a cult leader. He probably killed at least a dozen people if only indirectly. He was the Charles Manson of mathematics.
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Call me crazy but I think the world was better off when people were willing to form cults around hexagons and poo poo rather than whatever we've got going on now.
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That song that Jeff is listening to in the first episode of Fired on Mars is also the intro song to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, "One of the Living" by Tina Turner. Realizing that made the whole thing feel a little more grim.
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exquisite tea posted:Call me crazy but I think the world was better off when people were willing to form cults around hexagons and poo poo rather than whatever we've got going on now.
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exquisite tea posted:I don't understand why mathematicians always try to debunk the "Pythagoras once killed a guy for proving irrational numbers exist" story, wouldn't you want to put the fear of loving with math into people? loving with Math is literally all Mathematicians do. That's what math is. Mathematicians want more people to gently caress with Math
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exquisite tea posted:I don't understand why mathematicians always try to debunk the "Pythagoras once killed a guy for proving irrational numbers exist" story, wouldn't you want to put the fear of loving with math into people? You would think that statistical mechanics textbook where the first paragraph lists the brilliant people who worked with statistical mechanics and then killed themselves would be enough of a warning but nooooo
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 Pack rats are actual animals that are addicted to collecting and hoarding all manner of useless crap. For some reason, I always thought the phrase was just a colorful spin on common rats' messy nests, not a separate family of creatures 
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zedprime posted:What we've got going on now is pretty close to the Greek cults. Pythagoras absolutely would not have worn a mask. Diogenes would have.
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Captain Splendid posted:eiπ=-1 This is proof that Euler just made math up, everything before him is just fake math history. Pythagoras was just a weird cult leader who thought triangles look neat.
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