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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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I'm not too bad, but not too great either xDD I was always better in English and foreign language and music. :D
I wasn't very good at anything haha. I studied business at college and I don't even know if i want to work in business XD I don't know where i want to be.
For a lot of things, it's not necessarily all of the math that is the most important, but the way of thought that you learn.

Then again, I study physics and the math itself is pretty bloody important...
I didn't learn anything useful in maths. Like day to day, non-mathematician life.
Math is really only used as a building block for other things, like chem and physics.

And it's bloody awful and confusing and boring and awfully redundant for non-maths students. In most cases. The time spent in maths would have been better spent watching The Sopranos
 

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Well, even then you still have to use math when doing things like balancing a check book or playing taxes. are we talking about basic or advanced math?
 

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Math is really only used as a building block for other things, like chem and physics.

Not true. Why should the only value be put into it's applications anyways? (plus there's a lot of things in math that don't exactly have very useful applications)

I didn't learn anything useful in maths. Like day to day, non-mathematician life.

I honestly must say that I pity you then.
 

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But you guys, you don't know how many times I have to figure out the volume of a rhombus and then divide it by three in every-day life.
 

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Well, even then you still have to use math when doing things like balancing a check book or playing taxes. are we talking about basic or advanced math?
I'd consider cheque books very basic maths.
I honestly must say that I pity you then.
because I dont wish to find the speed of a train or find x from some nonsense application?

But you guys, you don't know how many times I have to figure out the volume of a rhombus and then divide it by three in every-day life.

I do that almost as much as I fuck animals.

I.e. never.
 

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H-Con, what is your UTM zone?

You do have to use math in everyday life, depending on your job you will most likely need to be able to calculate standard deviation, etc, and use simple math.
 

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But you guys, you don't know how many times I have to figure out the volume of a rhombus and then divide it by three in every-day life.

A rhombus is a two dimensional shape, it does not have a volume.

I assumed it could be made three-dimensional by just stretching it out to make a base measurement.

But seriously I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
 

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For some reason, I've known what a parallelagram is for as long as I can remember.

I'm not even sure I spelled it right.
 

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But you guys, you don't know how many times I have to figure out the volume of a rhombus and then divide it by three in every-day life.

A rhombus is a two dimensional shape, it does not have a volume.

I assumed it could be made three-dimensional by just stretching it out to make a base measurement.

But seriously I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Then it would be a prism or something.
 

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My Math teacher has a ton of math based puns on the walls of his room.

Most are groan worthy
 

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You do have to use math in everyday life, depending on your job you will most likely need to be able to calculate standard deviation, etc, and use simple math.
day to day i do adding, subtracting..not even multiplication. very, very basic maths.
A rhombus is a two dimensional shape, it does not have a volume.
i did not know that.
I assumed it could be made three-dimensional by just stretching it out to make a base measurement.
I have literally no idea what that means.
I get that math is important, but still. It can be so boring and difficult. xD
It's all boring haha.
It took me too long to remember what a rhombus was.
Like asparagus, right?

For some reason, I've known what a parallelagram is for as long as I can remember.

I'm not even sure I spelled it right.
You're a parallelogram.
 

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because I dont wish to find the speed of a train or find x from some nonsense application?

How is that nonsense anyways?

H-Con, what is your UTM zone?

You mean time zone, right? I'm the same as Paris, and the like, GMT +2 at the moment

I get that math is important, but still. It can be so boring and difficult. xD

In applications, it's pretty bloody important, yes. Not that most people need to those calculations, that's what we have computers for, after all.
 
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