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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 13:18:49 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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   > In later years of education, physics classes teach students a type-checking discipline of tracking units with each number.
   
   I remember High-School Math teachers hating me for doing this…
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 13:31:18 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Meanwhile I've had a bc config to easily manipulate time + SI prefixes: https://hacktivis.me/notes/bc.txt
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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 13:53:57 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan I think I used to invent weird units like “kilometer per hour per second” for acceleration. And probably many other optimisations, sometimes without me even realising that was not a common way to do stuff.

     I am aware of at least one Math teacher who very explicitly told me that I should not pay attention in order not to break her class :-D

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 13:57:04 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @ledoian Well sort of makes sense, acceleration is typically put as m/s² aka (m/s)/s, so km/h/s would just mean a bit of lossless unit conversion.
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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 13:57:54 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan Reminds me of that one time when the Physics teacher explained some basic mechanics, it seemed unplausible to me, so I brought some wooden blocks (for toddlers) and disproved her the next class. And demanded explanation, ofc :-)

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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 13:58:50 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan It does! But the minds around me were not ready :-D

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:01:25 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @ledoian haha yeah, that one I can see.
     Meanwhile literally the first class I attended in High-School was around Flatland and so things like 4D geometry and other maths. Rip people's minds. :D
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:04:48 JST iced depresso

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     @lanodan @ledoian never went to high school :comfystoner: read that book tho.
     
     beware the females they'll poke you (1d shapes)
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:05:51 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @icedquinn @ledoian I barely read the book, I somehow managed to go complete math nerd with classmates.
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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:07:09 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan Oh, right, I almost forgot about Flatland! But I only tried to explain that to my classmates (usually on the train), not the teachers. Few of them were actually interested :-) And that was around 13yo :-)

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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 14:10:12 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan @icedquinn I might not have finished it, really. But it was nice :-) (Also, quite hard, because I decided that I will just read the English original and not a version in a language I can speak fluently, at that age).

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