It did seem like a funny name...
Definitely wouldn’t want this math idiot determining a flight plan.
2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
[Verse 1]
Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I’ll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes a five
[Verse 2]
I’ll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April showers
And two and two always makes a five
[Bridge]
It’s the devil’s way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now
Because
[Chorus]
You have not been
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
You have not been
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
You have not been
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
You have not been
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
[Outro]
I try to sing along
But I get it all wrong
‘Cause I’m not, ‘cause I’m not
I swat ‘em like flies
But like flies, the bugs keep coming back
Not, but I’m not
All hail to the thief
All hail to the thief
But I’m not, but I’m not
But I’m not, but I’m not
Don’t question my authority or put me in a box
‘Cause I’m not, ‘cause I’m not
Oh, go and tell the king
That the sky is falling in
But it’s not, but it’s not, but it’s not
Maybe not, maybe not
Apparently there IS some debate about this...
https://babylonbee.com/news/2-2-4-insists-close-minded-bigot
Then Brian Stelter is wise beyond his years. It is simply irresponsible to make such bold statements unless you are a genuine academician educated in the correct discipline. Not too long, displaying an immense amount of wisdom, a very wise Supreme Court candidate schooled a lesser on how not to make a complete idiot of yourself by trying to answer “what is a woman”? How could she possibly know, how could anyone know the answer without having the proper credentials? Certainly, Trump was irresponsible in making a wild guess as to 2+2=4. How utterly non-Presidential.
I will never forget when I was a high school sophomore (MANY, MANY moons ago). The math class textbook had the title:
The New Math
My immediate reaction was ‘what was wrong with the math before today?’
Fortunately, back then, no matter what the textbook might proselytize, the teachers still taught us appropriately.
Many years later, I was assigned as a long-term substitute in middle school math. When I demonstrated what my teachers had taught me, some of the students asked “why doesn’t everyone teach this way.” I remember using that question/moment to state something like ‘you and I cannot control what other people do; we can control what each of us do.’
PS Yes, middle school students are basically aliens, but they are a gas to inspire and teach.
For details about how 2 + 2 = 1, see modular math addition table for n=3.
For n > 4, 2 + 2 = 4.
Oh, yes. For n > 4, math is racist.
Actually, 2 + 2 can equal 5 for large values of 2.
It has been proven by official government reports that 11 million illegal aliens in 2005 added to 10 million more illegals in 2024 equals 11 million illegals in 2025.