• save_the_humans@leminal.space
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    3 days ago

    With a masters degree in mathematics, my response when someone wants me to do mental math is something like, “I can barely even count”, in reference to combinatorics, while I pull out my phones calculator.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Yeah when you get to university level maths you start pulling out calculator to check whether 2+2 really is 4 or you just made a mistake