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Sexy Math (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 39 points 5 months ago

Stupid sexy math

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 37 points 5 months ago

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/the-breakthrough/

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 29 points 5 months ago

Jonathan Swift got there first:

"If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat."

Gulliver's Travels, Part 3 Chapter 2

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

yeah but Swiftie was physically repulsed to nausea by his wife. He's the absolute poster boy for being in the closet.

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

TIL, and it makes sense.

[-] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Man, I finally read that book a couple months ago. Way more pissing and shitting than I thought there'd be.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Read Gargantua and Pantagruel next.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago

Still counts.

[-] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

Visual agnosia?

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Before everyone was on the Internet; before everyone recorded everything; and before she would get absolutely in trouble, I had a 7th grade math teacher with a shirt that had the quadratic formula across the chest area.

One day when teaching this topic, she wore a jacket over it and when introducing the formula, she unzips the jacket and with great enthusiasm, reveals her formula to the whole class. To this day I have that formula hardcoded into my brain and, on occasion, use it (mostly on bullshit employment tests but still.)