Satisfying math

[EightBitNate]

7 × 3 = 21 
8 × 8 = 64 
4 × 5 = 20 
9 + 9 = 18 
8 + 1 = 9   

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Unsatisfying math
33 + 77 = 110 
7 × 6 = 42 
35 / 7 = 5 

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[benjipwns]

You didn't just come on here talking shit about 7 x 6 like I thought you did.

[Potato]

7 X 7 = 49

[EightBitNate]

You didn't just come on here talking shit about 7 x 6 like I thought you did.

6x6=36 good
7x7=49 nice
6x7=…42??

[Uncle]

damn this is all exactly true

[benjipwns]

You didn't just come on here talking shit about 7 x 6 like I thought you did.

6x6=36 good
7x7=49 nice
6x7=…42??

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[Uncle]

when I was in 2nd grade I like to think I was smart for my age, I was reading more than I was forced to in school, and starting to pick up on math concepts ahead of what we were being taught

somehow I ended up in an argument about how much I knew about math with two shockingly bitchy girls who were 3 years ahead of me

they didn't believe I knew anything about division and I insisted that I did, they claimed I "wasn't allowed to learn it yet" or some shit

one of them said, "oh yeah, well then what's 8 divided by 16??"

and I said "...you can't do that, that doesn't make sense" (at this point not yet understanding fractions but knowing it didn't come out whole)

the two girls looked at each other and nodded smugly, and said at the same time in the most condescending tone, "it's 2!"

I have never forgotten this formative rage

[Potato]

when I was in 2nd grade I like to think I was smart for my age, I was reading more than I was forced to in school, and starting to pick up on math concepts ahead of what we were being taught

somehow I ended up in an argument about how much I knew about math with two shockingly bitchy girls who were 3 years ahead of me

they didn't believe I knew anything about division and I insisted that I did, they claimed I "wasn't allowed to learn it yet" or some shit

one of them said, "oh yeah, well then what's 8 divided by 16??"

and I said "...you can't do that, that doesn't make sense" (at this point not yet understanding fractions but knowing it didn't come out whole)

the two girls looked at each other and nodded smugly, and said at the same time in the most condescending tone, "it's 2!"

I have never forgotten this formative rage

Hold on to that shit mate. Let it fuel you to become the next El*n M*sk

[therealdeal]

6 x 18 = 108 is a personal fav, you can picture the 6 curling up and going to live between the 1 and 8

[Potato]

 

[Maiden Voyage]

damn this is all exactly true

I dunno... I'm pretty skeptical of the whole thing. Like how does 1/3 = .33333

[Joe Molotov]

damn this is all exactly true

I dunno... I'm pretty skeptical of the whole thing. Like how does 1/3 = .33333

Repeating, of course.

[Maiden Voyage]

damn this is all exactly true

I dunno... I'm pretty skeptical of the whole thing. Like how does 1/3 = .33333

Repeating, of course.

Sorry.... I DON'T KNOW I AM PRETTY SKEPTICAL OF THE WHOLE THING. LIKE HOW DOES 1/3 = .3333

[benjipwns]

9/9 = .99999

[Occam]

You know, reality isn't decimal. That's just one possible system to depict it.

[Uncle]

You know, reality isn't decimal. That's just one possible system to depict it.

reality is binary, things are either present or they are absent

[Occam]

There are quantum superpositions...

[Propagandhim]

how bout doing a linear transformation on thsi d

[Uncle]

There are quantum superpositions...

yes, those exist, which is the binary opposite of not existing

stick win every time

[Occam]

No, they exist and simultaneously don't.

[Potato]

1+1=STFU 

[benjipwns]

No, they exist and simultaneously don't.

No, they exist because they do.

[Occam]

If two states exist at the same time, then it's not binary.

[Uncle]

If two states exist at the same time, then it's not binary.

if two states exist at the same time, that means the opposite is not currently true (that only one of the states exists at this time)

which is still binary in nature

[Tasty]

Faves.

5 x 4 = 20
8 + 5 = 13
4 x 9 = 36
5 x 9 = 45
Anything x 11

[Occam]

If two states exist at the same time, then it's not binary.

if two states exist at the same time, that means the opposite is not currently true (that only one of the states exists at this time)

which is still binary in nature

If multiple states exist at the same time, then you can't express this with absolute values. It's not either-or, or 0 or 1.
So our universe which exists (or we wouldn't be having this conversation) can't be binary in nature.

[Uncle]

If two states exist at the same time, then it's not binary.

if two states exist at the same time, that means the opposite is not currently true (that only one of the states exists at this time)

which is still binary in nature

If multiple states exist at the same time, then you can't express this with absolute values. It's not either-or, or 0 or 1.
So our universe which exists (or we wouldn't be having this conversation) can't be binary in nature.

a binary: true vs. not true

another binary: (true and not true) vs. not (true and not true)

 

[Tasty]

Binary sucks. Trinary and hex are where it's at.

[Occam]

Maybe it's fuzzy.

[Uncle]

oh yeah the most satisfying math is what I learned accidentally while messing around with a calculator in middle school

[benjipwns]

Math is like the one thing I know I clearly have failed to remember from school. Or at least I think I do. I went well past calculus but I'm pretty much convinced I can't do anything beyond early algebra. (I'm not counting stats in social science because I learned very early on that nobody actually understands or bothers with the math, they just believe it when some fancy dude tells them to do a type of regression. Which is technically accurate for reasons but still baffled me when I was more ignorant and discovered nobody could explain why the regressions we use is appropriate, I had to research online to find out.)

I've told this story on here before but I needed a single college math credit and I put it off until my last semester and just took the lowest level college algebra that wasn't remedial. So it had been a few years since I did any classroom math and quite a long time since I had actually done the algebra. Turned out it was pretty easy, I got like 98% or some shit, which was better than I did the first time around applying myself. Anyway, that's setup for my similar to Uncle's story. Since we had to do the problems in the book as homework I went to the class and did them in class while not really paying attention to whatever was actually going on, I was like two chapters ahead or something when I realized I could stop because the actual schedule (rather than the proposed one at the start) wasn't going to let the class catch up and surpass me in the book. Anyway anyway point is one day people were arguing about something so I paid closer attention and discovered that like 15 or more people in the class were trying to argue with the actual literal math professor that 2/2 = 0 because when you have two and divide by two there's nothing left. (Although there was dispute among this group about why this was the case and who was most accurate in explaining.) This went on for some time until she just flat out told them that 2/2 will equal 1 in her classroom and on their tests.

[Joe Molotov]

If two states exist at the same time, then it's not binary.

Like how Kansas City simultaneously exists in the state of Kansas and the state of Missouri.

[Uncle]

if both Michigan and Nevada exist, then people don't have to define themselves by traditional gender roles