Little Andrew: "That's what I say, Teach...What's the f*ucking difference!"
Posted on 03/24/2022 12:33:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
According to Howard, he was studying chemical engineering at New York's Pratt Institute when he had a disagreement with a professor over a complex mathematical problem: 1 x 1. We are not joking. Howard strongly believes that one times one equals two, and the media is lying to you about it equaling one. As he put it on a Rolling Stone profile on him:
"How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect. One times one equals two because the square root of four is two, so what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two, and that cannot be." This did not go over well, he says, and he soon left school. "I mean, you can't conform when you know innately that something is wrong."
Yes, he dropped out over the 1 x 1 = 2 controversy, and he's still passionate about educating people about their mathematical misconceptions. In the same article, he said: "This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one," he says. “They won't have to grow up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they'll know that one times one equals two. We're about to show a new truth. The true universal math."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
He can’t tell you what a woman is either.
Well, I just looked in the kitchen and we have 5 apples.
Terrence Howard was the highest paid actor in Ironman.
By a lot.
He stormed off and refused to come back because of racism. Now we have Don Cheadle and everything is right with the world.
I think he understands multiplication. He may even be good at math. He’s just hung up on that issue. Which most people, even who are bad at math, find easy.
“he was studying chemical engineering at New York’s Pratt Institute”
It’s a sad commentary on the failures of “affirmative action” that this ignoramus was even deemed to have met whatever prerequisites exist for studying chemical engineering at the Pratt Institute.
studying chemical engineering at the Pratt Institute.
ChE is second only to ElE in difficulty to get a BS.
I would know. I took Business Law as a free elective in my ChE quest and marveled at the lib arts morons saying how hard it was. It was a breeze in comparison.
The square root of 2 is 1.414...., not 2 as Howard says he was told.
Because of course (wait for it) math is racist. 1x1=1 is the racist man trying to cheat you out of your money, he just stole your dollar...
Look up "homonym" while you're at it.
p.s. If 5 x 0 = 0, which number got increased, the 0 or the 5?
2, because I purchased one as well. So your apple given to me plus my purchased apple = 2! HAH!
I think it means 1x2=3 1x3=4. 3/1=??? starts to make even less sense.
Best part of math article are FR responses.
How ingnorant can this man be. One, one time is one. One, two times is two. One, three times is three. And on and on.
I guess 2x1=2 is wrong.
And 3x1=3 is wrong.
and so on and so forth...
Funny thing about the square root of 2. To write it as a number would take forever. To draw it , however , is easy. You start with a unit square then draw a diagonal splitting the square in two. The length of that diagonal is the square root of 2.
again, just because there are other possible definitions, it doesn’t mean the ones used aren’t legit- multiplication means increase typically- look it up in any dictionary- There is no honynimical disparity here- (Yes i made that word up
) it doesn’t mean there isn’t exceptions to the rule-
“What is to multiply?
In math, to multiply means to add equal groups.
When we multiply, the number of things in the group increases. “
https://www.splashlearn.com/math-vocabulary/multiplication/multiply
{{That’s not the mathematical definition,]]
Huh?
“What is to multiply?
In math, to multiply means to add equal groups.
When we multiply, the number of things in the group increases. “
https://www.splashlearn.com/math-vocabulary/multiplication/multiply
“What exactly is multiplication?
In math, to multiply means to add equal groups. When we multiply, the number of things in the group increases.”
“What does multiplication mean in math?
: the process of adding a number to itself a certain number of times : the act or process of multiplying numbers. : an increase in the number or amount of something.”
[[It definitely does not mean that in a mathematical context,]]
“The basic words of math like “multiply” and “add” were adapted from everyday life long ago. Back then, concepts like negative numbers and even zero had not been developed. People would really only think in terms of multiplying by positive whole numbers. And why bother to multiply by 1? It doesn’t do anything. So the use of the words made sense.
But mathematicians gradually extended the meanings of the words. Not only can you multiply fractions or negative numbers, you can multiply matrices or numbers in modular arithmetic, where the idea of one number being greater than another is meaningless.
The basic words of math like “multiply” and “add” were adapted from everyday life long ago. Back then, concepts like negative numbers and even zero had not been developed. People would really only think in terms of multiplying by positive whole numbers.”
https://www.themathdoctors.org/how-can-multiplication-make-it-smaller/
Multiply in math does means increase- it now also can mean decrease- As mentioned, just because a word has expanded and now has other meanings, that fact does not mean that it negates the original meaning- the original meaning of multiply applies to math as well- folks multiplied numbers and got increases before learning about fractions and negative numbers
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