Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 107

Newton was an asshole, team Leibniz!

#Leibnix4Life

When I was very young and new to math I remember being very fascinated with repeating decimals, things like this

\[0.121212121212...\]

for the rest of this post I will use the bar notation and represent the above as this which is the same thing:

\[0.\overline{12}\]

Anyway what I found curious as a kid was that you can represent an infinitely repeating decimal as a fraction where it is just the repeating bit of decimals over the same number of digits of 9. So the fraction form of the above looks like this

\[\frac{12}{99}\]

This blew my mind as a kid, it seemed almost magical how denominators of multiples of 10 were for "regular" decimals and denominators of 9 were for repeating decimals. What is this voodoo!

Of course it didnt take me long to put two and two together and realize that the fraction \(\frac{9}{9}\) results in 1 and not \(0.\overline{9}\) as the above naive rules might expect.

Of course I went to the math teacher to try to get some help understanding this and having a math teacher try to explain to a kid in first or second grade that \(0.\overline{9}\) is actually the same as \(1\) wasn't easy for him I'm sure.

I remember his logical point was "well you cant have an infinitely small number, so if the 9's go on forever they are just approaching 1". As an adult looking back I realize he was thinking of it in calculus terms, which is all well and valid, but it didnt translate too well to a little kid. I remember coming back tot he teacher the next day, smug as hell, ready to prove him wrong and I came up with this equation:

\[0.\overline{9} = 1 - 0.\overline{0}1\]

He said "you cant do that" I replied "I just did!"

As an adult knowing limits and all that I understand what the teacher was saying, and of course he was right in a way. But then even older as I got deeper in math I learned of the concept of an infinitesimal, which is basically the very idea I was conveying as a kid just in a less refined way, without good wording. So now I look back and dont know if my teacher was outsmarted by child-me, or what.

@design_RG

No but we should :)

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@design_RG

enrolment is like 40% lower on weekends than weekdays which is weird.

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@rasterman sure buddy, whatever you say

@rasterman If its half the train wreck your comments have been on this one it would at least be worth a good laugh.

@rasterman you are even dogmatic about your need for dogma, what a sight!

@rasterman Notice the left says "left wing" the right says "right win"... the middle doesnt say "centrist" though... should be your first clue.

@rasterman Wow man what a distorted view of the comic you have riddled with assumptions that dont exist.

The middle column is not about being a centrist. It is about not being politically dogmatic in your treatment of others.

It is about treating people how they demonstrate they deserve, rather than based on a label. It is about not living a life defined by the dogma of your place on a political spectrum.

@rasterman Except that isnt the case. Picking column 2 does not have the end result of civilization. Picking columns #1 and #3 results in that. Your argument was only that it was inevitable, which even if that is true then going along with it speeds up "the end" doesnt slow it down.

So sorry but there is no logic in what you say, just mental gymnastics

@fahrni same

@rasterman I dont do whats right based on if it is popular or not with others,

@chris

Not sure ts disrespectful. While I wouldnt buy it and i can see why they dont find it fitting. But nothing about it disgraces the memory. If someone wishes to keep a memory of oppression close to them so they are reminded of it I have no problem with it.

I certainly dont think it is a clear enough case to call on amazon to outright ban it.

If it were a toilet seat cover or something then I could get behind this.

@AuschwitzMuseum @amazon

@rasterman The same as the other columns, whoever stands up and does it. It is free for anyone to adopt and enforce as anything in this world is.

@rasterman all the more reason to ensure column #2 doesnt get erradicated then.

Just because evil is winning is hardly a good excuse to let it win.

@danie10 While qoto and many other instances are ad free I'm not sure calling it ad free is fair. MS for example, the flagship instance, is riddled with advertisements just as bad as what we see on twitter.

@rasterman Ahhh good to hear you dont believe that dribble, LOL. Its more common than you might think

@rasterman Who said mudasir was keeping quiet? Or that he even knows any terrorists with which to speak out on.

All of that are assumptions that have no basis on any context in the cartoon unless you just have inherent prejudice towards people like him.

@rasterman No it has nothing to do with naivity.

Extremism and polarization is self-reinforcing. Over time it will always destroy the rational people who refuse to give in to extremes, that is sad but true. It is however no reason to abandon rationality and fairness.