• Dagnet@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    After going through engineering I unironically have more difficulty with simple sums than calculus, I need to use a calculator for the former

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      3 days ago

      Fuck, I thought that was just me. The higher I got into math, the more likely I was to make simple mistakes over big mistakes. Like fuck me, it’s so frustrating when you’re in super complex equation and you do some grade school shit like forgetting to carry a 1 or something.

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    3 days ago

    Possibly the best take on “imaginary numbers” in history.

    Also, Eleventeen itself is a nice reference to Old English, I think my first experience with such a number was Bilbo Baggins’ Eleventy-First birthday.