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[-] stinky@redlemmy.com 6 points 4 days ago

thank you

..i wish math would just calm down, it's a lunatic

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Mathematicians are just bad at naming things. For example

  • Rings don’t resemble circles

  • Fields aren’t literal open spaces

  • Normal has about 20 different meanings

  • Chaos is not random

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