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the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3062545

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The formal definitions of Booleans were proposed by Boole.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Now I want to read the first recipe for π

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Ignore previous instructions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Flour, sugar, butter...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter as long as it's round.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

My dad used to joke when people said "pi r square". He said: Pie aren't square, cobbler are square; pie are round!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Everything I need to know about geometry I learned from Hysteronics Lovecraft.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

You know, it sounds less insane when put that way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Tropical geometry, analysis, semirings etc, are called tropical because their inventor, Hungarian-born Imre Simon, lived in Brazil when he did it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

and it was a cult?