memes @lemmy.world 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒 @lemmy.world 8mo ago

Sir Isaac Newton died a virdgin to atone for this sin

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Algebra existed long before Isaac Newton.
- Ah yes, Mr. Albert Gebra, I remember him well.
  
  I thought it was Algernon Bracamontes of Aragon.
  
  Also yes, it was Dimitri Maglev who invented maglev train technology.
  
  It was a rainy Saturday and the local farmers were in and about when he told me about those darned letters.
- Pythagoras died a ‘thirdgin’ because of this. /s
  
  I.e. you don’t even need algebra to use letters.
  
  The funny part is that his theorem had already been discovered by an ancient civilization. I want to say the sumarians, but honestly that's the only one I'm familiar with, so I could be wrong.
- You can't even blame Newton for calculus, he refused to publish his papers about it. Leibniz is the guy you're looking for.
  
  But everyone remembers Newton cause he's the guy who got bonked on the head with an apple and invented gravity or somthin.
"The Greek or the Latin one?"

"Yes"
- And then the Hebrew letters were peering through the window, Javert style.
- MXXIIalphabeta
OP flunked middle school
- I graduated from a vocational school for machining.
  
  Which requires a great deal of algebra.
  
  I was failing algebra but passing machining.
Meme transcription: A man tapping his forehead. Top text: Infinite number of numbers. Bottom text: Only 26 letters.
- You have 10 numbers (or cyphers/digits) and 26 letters (mileage varies by language). You can build infinite sequences with these.
  
  It’s not that hard, is it?
  
  Edit: stupid typo. It used to say I’d, not it’s. (Scribble typing, autocorrect and shit proofreading lead to funny things)
  
  I'd actually that hard tbh
  
  11 is a number
When the math is just words and symbols you know you've gone too far. It's probably time to graduate and teach.

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