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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2023 20:21:55 JST goatsarah

   Seeing someone on Reddit saying that they never used the maths (specifically, “pi”) they learned at school, and that it was pointless learning it.

   I have used trigonometry and calculus in my everyday life to make short work of problems, mostly relating to DIY. If you reach middle age without m any this stuff, then I can almost guarantee that you have done several things the hard way when you didn’t need to.

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     Povl (povl@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 03:30:57 JST Povl

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     @goatsarah making a cake this weekend, I calculated its circumference from the diameter to determine how long a strip of marcipan to make for the edge. Also regularly use volume calculations to roughly determine “Will the remains in this (cylindrical) pot fit in this (rectangular cuboid) container?”

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Thursday, 31-Aug-2023 06:30:41 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @goatsarah I’ve used very little of the math they tried to teach me and forgotten an awful lot of it:(

     But my opinion wasn’t that it was a pointless thing to be taught, but that school did one hell of a bad job at doing it:( At one point I was good at maths (at least compared to my peers) and slowly they sucked every bit of fun and wonder out of it:(

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