American Pop Culture and Mathematics

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
It only sounds really daft since you took it out of context and didn't provide the explanation.

[quote]After high school, he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying chemical engineering, until he got into an argument with a professor about what one times one equals. "How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that tw ...[text shortened]... e toward evolution. For that matter, the line of "reasoning" bears similarities to that of YECs.

This is nothing like a Young Earth Creationist's attitude toward evolution.

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
It only sounds really daft since you took it out of context and didn't provide the explanation.

[quote]After high school, he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, studying chemical engineering, until he got into an argument with a professor about what one times one equals. "How can it equal one?" he said. "If one times one equals one that means that tw ...[text shortened]... e toward evolution. For that matter, the line of "reasoning" bears similarities to that of YECs.

so much stupid in that quote.

"If one times one equals one that means that two is of no value because one times itself has no effect."
sure it does. it obeys the rule that 1 times any number is that number.

"what's the square root of two? Should be one, but we're told it's two"
nobody is told the square root of two is two. ever.

"This did not go over well"
yes, being a dumbass tends to not go over very well.

"I mean, you can't conform when you know innately that something is wrong."
yes, because personal instinct trumps mathematical proofs. and not in something complex like calculus. or string theory. noo, he "knows" something is wrong with basic arithmetic.


On a side note, even the proof to 1=2 that at some point divides by 0 is more intelligent than this.

Originally posted by lemondrop
interesting: 1x1 = 2x1
can't figure that one out

you just have to "know innately that something is wrong".

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Well, he is famous for me and I am not a mathematician🙂 what did he clock in IQ wise, 220 or something, when he was a kid? I never heard of Terrence Howard, does he have a TV show or something?

Originally posted by sonhouse
what did he clock in IQ wise, 220 or something,

There's no such thing. Beyond 160 at most, 140 more likely, IQ ratings are meaningless.

Originally posted by lemondrop
interesting: 1x1 = 2x1
can't figure that one out

no no no. if 1X1=2 then 1X2=3 or maybe 4.