Did You Know They Say Calculus Is The Language Of God. Did You Know They Tried To Hold Math Up To Infinity

did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand

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Once upon a time, in a far away land, there was a perfectly triangular lake with a kingdom on each side. One day, the three kingdoms went to war for control of the lake. The first kingdom was very wealthy and sent many knights, each with their own squire. The second kingdom was moderately wealthy and sent several knights with a few squires among them. The third kingdom was poor and sent their only knight, an old man, with his squire. The night before the battle, the armies celebrates. The first kingdom's army drank fine wine, the second kingdom's army drank ale, and the squire of the third kingdom tied a rope into a noose and used it to hang a pot from a tree, which he used to cook dinner for him and the knight. The next day the knights from the first two kingdoms were too drunk to fight and the knight from the third kingdom was too feeble to fight, so the squires went to war instead. Amazingly, the third kingdom's squire was able to singlehandedly match the squires from the other two kingdoms.

The moral of the story is that the the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides.

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i was put on this earth to eat soup, learn math, read books, be comfy in bed, learn math, make friends, go on the computer, walk through the streets after rain, breathe fresh air, learn math, help build socialism, drink my little beverages (non alcoholic i don’t do drugs etc), tell people about math, make people jealous of how im such a special boy and so smart and cute and ontologically always right about everything, wear my cute little outfits, look at cool architecture in different cities, take the train, maximize everyone’s utility function by merely being present, prove math theorems with my giant brain, identify birds, stand under blooming trees in spring, achieve world domination, and find cool rocks. did i mention math yet