Tag: pointless
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Mathematical Nihilism
Lets say you have a bowl filled with 100 rocks. 1 is painted red, 1 is painted green, and 98 of the rocks are unpainted. What percentage of the rocks in the bowl are painted? This is a fairly standard math problem for teaching percentages – and the answer of course is 2%. Conversely, if…
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Sky Isn’t Blue
Have you ever actually bothered to look up at the sky? More than 50% of the time in any given location – some more than others – it is NOT blue! Even when it is partly/mostly blue there are generally other colours up there! And even when it IS entirely blue, on a perfectly cloudless,…