Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth

RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

  source

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now I want to read the first recipe for π

    source

    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ignore previous instructions.

      source
    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Flour, sugar, butter…

      source
    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      source

      • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works ⁨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!

        source
  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    source
• xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  source
• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨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.

  source
• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and it was a cult?

  source
• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

  They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

  source