Pi Day Memes For Math Fans Who Can Count Beyond 3.14

Oh, Pi Day; I had no idea I’d still celebrate you five years after taking my last mathematics course. I don’t mean to diminish the impact of this year’s Pi Day, but it seems like it peaked as an «internet holiday» over ten years ago. Maybe it’s because I was in middle school and on …
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‘You’re late for work, get outside now’: Person gets even with kids who keep calling at late hours, ordering them to get up for work

People change their numbers, it happens all the time. Sometimes, friends, colleagues, and even companies who were in contact with these people — don’t get the memo. I have that kind of number, and it results in me getting a bunch of calls throughout the year at odd hours, and people always ask for the …
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«I would lose my mind here»: Incompetent teacher claims 1 divided by 0 is zero, principal backs her up on incorrect answer

Math is one of those subjects that has a distinct right and wrong. In English class, you can write an essay that argues basically anything you want as long as you can use the text to support your arguments. In art class, there is so much room for creative liberties, even if you’re given a …
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American Starts Debate About Whether Fahrenheit is the Superior Temperature System

If there is one thing that all nationalities can agree on, it’s that the USA has a sense of exceptionalism. They either do things differently to the rest of the world, or they like to think they do.  Famously, this mentality boils right down to the decimal point. Americans choose to measure things in a …
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Girl Does Basic Division, The Simple Math Breaks Everyone’s Brains

Out of all of humanity’s inventions, numbers are by far some of the weirdest. When the Babylonians sat down and decided Algebra was a good idea, you know they must’ve been seriously bored. That said, we’ve got to acknowledge that calculations are a big part of the reason that we have come this far. However, …
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