Science Memes @mander.xyz fossilesque @mander.xyz 6mo ago

Maths

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As a fan of both authors I'd just like to point out the quote is from Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

I've never really thought about it and I don't have the vocabulary to describe it, but they have similar humour in the way they look at humans and social interaction.
- spoiler
  
  sdfsaf
- Likewise in one of the later books they visit "God's last message to the universe" or something like that and if I recall correctly it's "Sorry for the inconvenience"
  
  Great great author.
  
  I was listening to the audiobook and had tu de cypher it by writing onto the paper. Almost shat myself laughing when I realize what it said. You will be missed Douglas.
- There’s a certain irony in using a Douglas Adams quote to support saying something is reminiscent of Terry Pratchett.
  
  British humour, both lean into the absurd. I love them both, and can admit there are similarities.
  
  I think that person just misremembered the author of the quote.
- It does actually attribute the quote to Douglas Adams at the bottom of the image.
Terry Pratchett the Douglas Adams of Fantasy.

Both are legends!
- Both had major insight in to the bureaucrats soul.
GNU Terry Pratchett
Why do people in the UK and US say “maths” vs “math”?
- There should be a trail of Us that have fallen off the ship.
- Because it's the short form of "mathematics"
  
  Although typically I've seen the UK call it maths and North Americans call it math.
  
  Is the ending s kept on abbreviations of other singular nouns ending in s? Or is that unique to maths?
- I prefer mafs
  
  Maphs could be used here too...
- There's more than one type of math. Would you say physic?
  
  Or sport?
  
  Germans and French do
  
  Do you guys also say Geographies? Or Histories? Do you take Arts classes? You take Physics, do you also have Chemistries and Biologies?
  
  Yeah I get it, but I’m more curious why it’s said differently?
- Let me go count all my Lego.
  
  Lego is the only correct version though, it is defined by the company that created it so its not 'open to interpretation' imo.
We can blame beer.

Growing beer demand using wild grain bread for the yeast source ⟩ settling permanently allowed increased agriculture ⟩ agriculture necessitated protection from thieves and raids ⟩ establishment of nobility (military) and temples (religion, math, and literacy ⟩ money is invented to facilitate the collection of taxes for protection and public works (yes, government and organized religion started as a parasitic voluntary protection racket) ⟩ life got harder, nourishment got worse, but hey, at least they had beer.
Douglas Adams <3

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