2+2=5 so they say.

[Raylan]

So learned that math is racist and that 2+2=4 is part of white supremacy. That 2+2 can sometimes equal 5. So a movement has been started to teach kids in school aboutmath white supremacy and that 2+2=5.  Reading it all I was left feeling like this:

 

 

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

I had an instructor in college that used to remind us that 1+1=3 for large values of 1.   It was one of those lessons that the less flexible engineers couldn’t understand. What they failed to understand was it is a lesson in being flexible and understanding that there isn’t always a precise answer to every problem. 

[Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646]

Social Engineering is not an exact science.

 

Imis

[Dantankerous]

Common core math is awesome!

 

As long as your answer makes you happy the answer is correct.

 

 

 

[Trigger Mike]

Wasn't that the issue in the book 1984, that 2+2=?  Or whatever you were told it was? 

[Chuck Steak]

It sounds like these mathematicians work at the Ministry of Love in Room #101

[Smokin Gator SASS #29736]

So if you owe someone $5 you can pay them back with 2 $2 bills? Good to know.

[Ozark Shark]

2 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

Common core math is awesome!

 

As long as your answer makes you happy the answer is correct.

 

 

 

Actually "as long as you make the Woke happy."  All else are common core incorrect.

[Chili Ron]

Howdy,

I once saw a very involved equation that proved 1 equals 2.

The professor talked us thru it and it sure did seem right.

Then he pointed out that he had divided by n-1 where n equals 1.

That is dividing by 0 which is an illegal thing in mathematics.

Gotta watch what they are slinging.

Best

CR

 

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

4 hours ago, Dantankerous said:

Common core math is awesome!

 

As long as your answer makes you happy the answer is correct.

 

 

 

And you get a gold star to go with your answer.  

 

Sister Mary Teckla  didn't buy into that theory though. 

[South-Eye Ned]

14 hours ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

I had an instructor in college that used to remind us that 1+1=3 for large values of 1.   It was one of those lessons that the less flexible engineers couldn’t understand. What they failed to understand was it is a lesson in being flexible and understanding that there isn’t always a precise answer to every problem. 

In accounting, we call it “rounding”, while 2+2 better equal 4, by gum.

[Ozark Shark]

Those who think common core math is a good thing should be forced to fly in a plane designed and built using the "precision" of common core math.  

 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

reminds me of a math class , where a teacher said . an apple and an orange = a grapefruit 

 

 put an apple , and a orange on the desk , stuck a Buck 110 , twixt em , and said make a da** grapefruit 

 

  he FAILD to do it , still passed the class 

 

 sometime it pays to be a hard nose 

 

  CB 

[Blackwater 53393]

I AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!

 

DON’T NONE OF IT ADD UP!!!

[Sedalia Dave]

Rounding errors will bite you in the arse.

[DeaconKC]

 

[Nasty Newt # 7365]

On 8/4/2020 at 9:13 PM, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

I had an instructor in college that used to remind us that 1+1=3 for large values of 1.   It was one of those lessons that the less flexible engineers couldn’t understand. What they failed to understand was it is a lesson in being flexible and understanding that there isn’t always a precise answer to every problem. 

But there is a precise answer to 1 + 1, and it isn't 3.  

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

2 minutes ago, Nasty Newt # 7365 said:

But there is a precise answer to 1 + 1, and it isn't 3.

 

not to be a stickler for the formalities, but that isn't exactly true.

1.000 + 1.000 = 2.000. 

But if we are talking about unspecified numbers like "1" as opposed to "1. or 1.0", then  "1" can easily be a rounded off 1.499. 

1.499 + 1.499 = 2.998. 

If you round off that last equation, you get 1+1=3.

 

It is all about the precision (either implied or explicit) of the frame of reference.  

 

 

[Raylan]

Just to give some context

 

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/36626-1984-fulfilled-leftists-say-2-2-can-equal-5-why-that-s-a-threat-to-freedom

 

 

[Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428]

it is amazing that "they" can even politicize something like math...

[South-Eye Ned]

Everything is politics to Socialists and Marxists.  One objective is to redefine everything in order to destroy the old paradigms 

[Nasty Newt # 7365]

1 hour ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

 

not to be a stickler for the formalities, but that isn't exactly true.

1.000 + 1.000 = 2.000. 

But if we are talking about unspecified numbers like "1" as opposed to "1. or 1.0", then  "1" can easily be a rounded off 1.499. 

1.499 + 1.499 = 2.998. 

If you round off that last equation, you get 1+1=3.

 

It is all about the precision (either implied or explicit) of the frame of reference.  

 

 

I give up.  

[Sedalia Dave]

On 8/6/2020 at 1:24 PM, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

 

not to be a stickler for the formalities, but that isn't exactly true.

1.000 + 1.000 = 2.000. 

But if we are talking about unspecified numbers like "1" as opposed to "1. or 1.0", then  "1" can easily be a rounded off 1.499. 

1.499 + 1.499 = 2.998. 

If you round off that last equation, you get 1+1=3.

 

It is all about the precision (either implied or explicit) of the frame of reference.  

 

 

 

1 + 1 sometimes also equals 1