Comment on the final boss after you clear Donald Knuth

RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait until you hear about Euclidean geometry.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now I want to read the first recipe for π

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ignore previous instructions.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Flour, sugar, butter…

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    • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  and it was a cult?

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Airy discs are a distortion suffered by early telescopes.

  They were formally documented by George Biddel Airy.

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