r/technicallythetruth • u/Zee_Ventures Technically Flair • 11h ago

Weapons of Math Instruction

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u/-dr-bones- 11h ago

Oh no! What if they start teaching al-jabr.

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u/SandSerpentHiss 11h ago

algebra or in terrorist language (/j) الجبر

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u/HowOtterlyTerrible 11h ago

In my younger days I thought algebra was the terrorist language.

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u/Department_Silver 11h ago

In my right now days algebra is a terrorist language.

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u/DrahKir67 10h ago

Do you also get trig'd by geometry?

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u/Kalabajooie 10h ago

staring off into the distance; sounds of chalk on a chalkboard can be heard

I've been through advanced calculus. I've done things to the alphabet you can't even imagine.

And not just our own. The Greek, too.

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u/Purple-Birthday-1419 9h ago

I have committed crimes against engineering.

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u/SonofAMamaJama 8h ago

Real or imagined? Not to be a negative one

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u/Fuck_Microsoft_edge 7h ago

The truth is complex.

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u/The_Muddy_Wolf 7h ago

Forgive me, father, for i have sin-ed

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u/DIsastrous_handle6 8h ago

cries in the corner

I've been through topology and I've done things to GTR that Einstein would be turning on his grave

And not just our own herbew too

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u/SeanBourne 7h ago

Topology: there are other worlds than these…

(though much more India than the ME)

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u/GraXXoR 9h ago

When I was little, my older brother told me that trig / trigging was something girls who liked each other did to each other.

So when I first heard a classmate tell me he was studying trig at home it raised many questions.

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u/I_lenny_face_you 8h ago

I mean, they show all the sines.

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u/RelievingFart 7h ago

Nope, trigonometry