I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!

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§ 512. STATE PIE
The state pie shall be apple pie.

Sec. 2. SERVING APPLE PIE
When serving apple pie in Vermont, a "good faith" effort shall be made to meet one or more of the following conditions:
(a) with a glass of cold milk,
(b) with a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce,
(c) with a large scoop of vanilla ice cream.

I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!1d ago
Kinda losing it over Lucas’ casting (and the characters in general) in this school performance.
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!1d ago
Time to make the Germknödel!
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!2d ago
Show threadLindsey Kuper2d ago

Man. It would be easy for me to say something reductive like, "400 people showed up with one day of notice to see a talk about math, not because anyone's grading them on attendance, just because math is cool and fun. If your students aren't showing up to your lectures, it's your fault."

I know it's not that simple, not even close to that simple. But there's a little bit of truth in there.

I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!2d ago
✧✦Catherine✦✧2d ago
the SI people are right and everybody doing it otherwise is wrong; you should never use the "K", "M", etc unit prefixes to mean factor of 1024. sure, with small enough sizes you can usually ignore it. but scale it up and you quickly run into trouble
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!2d ago
John Regehr3d ago
today in "draw the rest of the fucking owl"
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!3d ago
Paul Cantrell3d ago

Wow, that’s a deep Dedekind cut

I cantor even

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Show threadI Can't Believe It's Not Zero!3d ago
Well that came out well. Kids will have lunch!
Show threadI Can't Believe It's Not Zero!3d ago
“So anyway, I started cooking.”
Show threadI Can't Believe It's Not Zero!3d ago
This happens more often than you might expect around here
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!3d ago
TFW you have to make the kids lunches so you piece the leftover chicken and then you realize you might as well make stock and then you realize the kids need a vegetable so you start cooking some onions and broccoli and then you’re like “screw it might as well make risotto.”