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No, You Can’t Beat an Olympic Table Tennis Player
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Depends on some definitions.
"Beat" and "Olympic"mostly
Are we limiting them to their field of expertise, or can I bring them into mine? Are they good at stoichiometry? I bet I can beat 99.9% of them at chemistry questions.
And what about the table tennis representative from Greenland? I'm probably not good enough to beat them, but I know a person who probably could. Olympics are open to any nation that has the money and wants to be represented. I remember a very amateur -level swimmer from an African nation who got the most supportive cheer for finishing the event, though they were minutes out of contention in an event decided by seconds
Man, screw stoichiometry. A bunch of math ruining a fun science like chemistry.
That's a joke, but also heartfelt lol. I damn near failed high school chemistry because of stoichiometry.
I got better at math in college, but dang. I'm still butthurt that you can't learn science without maths
I get it, it's very much a filter subject in chemistry, after Gen chem 1 or 2 the balancing and limiting parts of stoichiometry gets left behind for actual chemistry. But you need to know how to crawl before you can make really nasty smells... Wait that's backwards...