Topic: How good are furries at maths?

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ReFresh

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Just askin'... Oh, me? Well I am still (kind of) able to do calculus and trigonometry... Thanks Kumon, I still remember and still fucking hate you.

CrocoGator

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I sometimes consume math content on YouTube, but in reality, I've probably forgotten almost all of calculus and only have a surface-level understanding of what lies beyond calculus. Shout out to Zundamon's Theorem, a Youtube channel featuring two anime girls who solve math problems to explore rather esoteric math concepts in intuitive ways. There's actual 2 channels: one in English and one in Japanese. Though, it seems the creator has been sticking purely to their English channel recently. What Does a 1.585-Dimensional Shape Look Like? (English)

bearly human

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Not at all. Standard algebra I'm good with but anything calculus related forget about it. Literally, I've never used that info and forgot almost immediately after finishing a final.

Worst part now is trying to fake how important it is to my son so he'll study.

AmigaMan

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I like my math. I'm in university, and I take all the interesting elective math courses I can—last one was an intro to game theory.

Envwy

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im dumb :3 /j

I can do some stuff but trigonometry or calculus... well... uh... not much

Lapidary

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refresh said:
Just askin'... Oh, me? Well I am still (kind of) able to do calculus and trigonometry... Thanks Kumon, I still remember and still fucking hate you.

Good? Don't see why furries are treated as a entirely different species (pun not intended) from humans. I mean I can bet some nobel prize winner might have been on a furry phase / is a furry

LendriMujina

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My math knowledge is all over the place.

  • I failed Algebra 2 twice, but only because of polynomials specifically. Both times.
  • I've dabbled into more advanced topics such as set theory on my own. I'm not an expert, but I know enough to have very little respect for ReigarW and their countless imitators.
  • I'm utterly clueless about trigonometry and calculus. Kinda would've had to pass Algebra 2 to learn those.

I do want to learn further, but... I can't help but feel like that ship's kinda sailed.

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SCTH

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Just to help balance this out, I'm quite good at math, at least compared to what most people here have said. I know calculus up through multivariable, decent understanding of linear algebra, and I know how to solve basic differential equations.

IndigoHowl

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riverobot said:
I can do every math becuase I am in colledge...
...can't spell though

I had the opposite problem. It took me four tries (I think) to get through Calculus 101.

lonewolf36

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Furthest I got was Algebra 2 in high school. When we were allowed to use graphing calculators

Cadynn

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Very bad at math, okay-ish at using it.

Although something that has always bothered me is that people don't understand that context matters in probability.

An example is that any pattern with multiple elements is rare when you calculate the probability of the pattern, but since the combination of elements to form a pattern from is so massive (billions of combinations), most patterns are pseudo-rare. It's about finding those patterns that the human brain likes, such as 10 of the same in a row. Same probability, but it's something we actually look for, thereby making its rarity meaningful.

On the same topic, if you repeat a 1/1,000 chance for 10,000 tries, hitting the chance somewhere in those tries is no longer "lucky", so if you want the true probability that something that just happened, you need to account for the amount you have rolled the probability. The amount of times people completely ignore this when giving answers to posts is crazy to me. I'll get mass downvoted for pointing out the fact that attemps in probability is a factor.

We're probably average, but may be more nerdy? Something like that.