@Dianora

If there are 8x10^9 people, each of whom gets a car with 40kg of copper, wouldn't that be a total of 3.2x10^11 kg of copper? or 3.2x10^8 tonnes? 320 million tonnes?

#Mathing #Copper #EANasir

@cstross

How can drugs get more expensive? He already brought down their prices "600%, 700%, 1000%".

#idiot #math #mathing #sums #arithmetic #CorpseTwitching

#ChristmaFact #Mathing In the โ€œ12 Days of Christmasโ€, all the gifts mentioned within the song add up to 364 gifts.

TIL about catastrophic cancellation, which deals with the subtraction of approximate numbers rather than the exact, and I am like, holy f-ing hell, this explains so much why my math on the necklace was so wonky.

#mathing #mathamatics

@ned

37,510 "Yes" votes from 44,458 voters is only 84.3%, nowhere close to 99.45%

(edit: but still impressive for a strike vote)

#Teachers #Mathing #Badly

This morning I am feeling so proud of one of my menteesโ€”I simply believed in her math abilities, allowed her agency to solve problems, & gave her guidance/support as I listened to her thinking. Her success in spite of the messaging she received has filled me with joy! Never underestimate the power of believing in someone! โค๏ธ #mathing

@blackle hold on, going back to the thing at the beginning where I counted the states and stuff.

each state is a distance of 1 from 8^2 different states (8^2+1 if we allow distance 0, too), because we can flip any one square, and we need 8^2 different classes, so yes we do need to be maximally efficient.

... also I should probably start tagging math stuff if I wanna look back at it. #mathing