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We now have school systems that force students to study math and, through enough exposure, our brains can learn to think mathematically. But if those skills cease to be used, the human brain will quickly return to factory settings.
A political committee is rarely a good solution to a mathematical problem.
365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 10 seconds: slightly more than 365.25 days. The Julian calendar is too short compared to the orbit. But it is too long compared to the seasons. Bizarrely, the seasons don’t even exactly match the orbital year.
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if there’s one thing a pope can do, it’s convince a lot of people to change their behavior for seemingly arbitrary reasons.
I have no idea how stock traders respond to such an unexpected jump up; like some kind of anti-crash. I assume they jumped back in through windows and blew cocaine out of their noses.
German physicist Daniel Fahrenheit proposed the scale that bears his name in 1724, and the zero point was based on a frigorific mixture. If “frigorific” has not instantly become your new favorite word, you’re cold and dead inside.
I explained in great detail that this was an exercise in showing that correlation does not mean causation.
A correlation is never enough to argue that one thing is causing another. There is always the chance that something else is influencing the data, causing the link.
“Mathematicians aren’t people who find math easy; they’re people who enjoy how hard it is.”
I’m a
Mathematician after all! 😃
