Comment on Ada Lovelace
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
The intent of the post, sure. Women and men are equally capable of anything.
But absolutely nobody creating sewing patterns is sitting down and going “alright the integral of e to the x dx is…” Or remembering their laplace transformations.
I’m not saying I couldn’t see cases where I would seriously consider using calculus in a sewing pattern, but it’s really not used in sewing pattern creation basically ever unless someone already knows it and had a very specific use case. I suspect the OP meant “calculations” or something similar and mis-typed.
Source: I still remember a fair amount of calculus and I sew
Of course they don’t mean women pull out a calculator, a notebook, and start doing calculations, anymore than when a person throws a ball at a target they pull out some graph paper and start calculating parabolic arcs and all that shit. They’re saying we do it instinctively, and if we’re good at doing it instinctively then we can do it intellectually.
Do you think “mental calculus” means people are doing derivatives in their heads?
It doesn’t. It’s also not what was meant by the author of this post when they used the word.
Melobol@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I love over-complicating things… but Calculus in a sewing pattern sounds really strange.
Unless… it is like for a space suit where you need to be accurate? Or making something for a form fitting hard surface?
Wren@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Quilters would like a word.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Only if you want clothes that fit
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I imagine people are using the calculus to analyze knitting patterns and stuff. Not the knitters themselves.
Fondots@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fun fact, the space suits used in the Apollo program were made by Playtex
DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Well there is a lot of calculus involved in making patterns like body ratios or wool to knot ratios if you put knitting into sewing.