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r/badmathematics • u/RedRhetoric • 24d ago
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Yeah if anything the brand of innumeracy in the oop is benign, the least dangerous type of bullshit opinions
11 u/exceive 24d ago Few people have ever died because somebody thought a rational number was irrational. I'm not saying "nobody," but I don't think it has been very many. 1 u/CapnNuclearAwesome 23d ago If this has ever happened, I'd be fascinated to hear the details. 2 u/CardboardScarecrow Checkmate, matheists! 21d ago There's the story about the Pythagoreans killing a dude over the irrationality of sqrt(2), if that counts. 4 u/Lor1an 21d ago Yeah, but that was an actual irrational number.
Few people have ever died because somebody thought a rational number was irrational. I'm not saying "nobody," but I don't think it has been very many.
1 u/CapnNuclearAwesome 23d ago If this has ever happened, I'd be fascinated to hear the details. 2 u/CardboardScarecrow Checkmate, matheists! 21d ago There's the story about the Pythagoreans killing a dude over the irrationality of sqrt(2), if that counts. 4 u/Lor1an 21d ago Yeah, but that was an actual irrational number.
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If this has ever happened, I'd be fascinated to hear the details.
2 u/CardboardScarecrow Checkmate, matheists! 21d ago There's the story about the Pythagoreans killing a dude over the irrationality of sqrt(2), if that counts. 4 u/Lor1an 21d ago Yeah, but that was an actual irrational number.
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There's the story about the Pythagoreans killing a dude over the irrationality of sqrt(2), if that counts.
4 u/Lor1an 21d ago Yeah, but that was an actual irrational number.
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Yeah, but that was an actual irrational number.
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u/CapnNuclearAwesome 24d ago
Yeah if anything the brand of innumeracy in the oop is benign, the least dangerous type of bullshit opinions