wow, shocking!

maybe you should shack up with that Nima guy. Take walks on the beach together and enjoy the sunset.

you spent time on me to do that? gracias.

I love Val!

PM box gets bumped to 3500 when modded and I currently sit at 94%. Also probably didn't get a single PM until 2008.

McLovin will end up filling my box iykwim.

Oh you ****in' know it baybee!

Yeah when I got modded and saw that my PM box got bumped to 3500 I lost my collective ****.

I can't imagine approaching 1,000 PMs.

Y'alls some behind-the-scenes MFers.

Sober up yet, R*R?

of course not

lighten up yet, Saklad?

best part is thoroughly unimpressed then banged em anyway!

"I'm gonna find me two waitresses and pull me a Fredo" is a beautiful tribute to include.

I learned to use a slide rule as well, which I called a "slipstick." Also the circular version. We had an abacus around our house and I played with that a good bit one summer and got fairly quick with it -- abaci (abacuses?) are pretty easy to use. I also read Trachtenberg's book on quick calculation and still remember some of its methods, although i've forgotten most of it.

I had a circular one as well--thin flimsy plastic IIRC. I had forgotten all about it. The engineering students referred to them as slipsticks which was about the extent of their sense of humor.

I received a nice abacus as a Christmas or b'day present as a kid, but I never tried to learn to use it. I'm totally lost on Trachtenberg--never heard of him.

i never learned how to use a slide rule, but when i was in 4th or 5th grade i did learn chisanbop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisanbop
it was taught to me in an advanced education class in school, not through some 'as sold on TV' course shilled by the aeronautical engineer father on My Three Sons.

Damn! Never even heard of that.

i bet rg was pretty sick with the sliderule

Mrs RG didn't wait it out for nuttin'

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I see you people actively trying to summon him.

Cool. I think about numbers in a very odd/obsessive way since I was a very young child. Numbers, counting, and math in general fascinates me. Many people don’t even realize that base 10 number system isn’t the only way to think about numbers. Then you get into really weird mathematical **** like ring theory. Fk i love it.

Good math history book:



I am pretty rusty at math now, which is basically what I spent much of the last half decade studying, but I really enjoy reading about it at an abstract level.

When people lose their **** about common core it makes me laugh hard. There’s not really a single correct way to think about numbers.

jmakin,

May I suggest a new undertitle?

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Caucasian Cactus

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