meler [none/use any]

My dance classes explicitly referred to the followers as “ladies” 😭😭 it’s so needlessly gendered

I talked about this a bit on sodium’s last dance report but I used to do a ton of swing dance too. I learned to follow and lead and a lot of the guys made it really weird

This is not a drill. This girl has hair scrunchies

Back when I did dance lessons with my mom I’d ask her to alternate back and forth between lead and follow (come to think about it this is almost certainly egg shit lmao) so a lot of the people in that social circle knew I could do both and sometimes one of the guys would dance with me when there were a lot of guys at an event. Most of the guys were weird about it though. Like chill out I’m wayyyyyyyyy too young for you anyway I just wanna dance

We shall discover the effects the squats will bring

It’s soooo good

I’m reading into the nonsense quite a bit so I might be wrong but I don’t think it’s circular logic. I think it’s just them misunderstanding how the real numbers are constructed and being VERY confident in their misunderstanding.

Their notation of Z10^Z makes me think they’re thinking of the reals not as Cauchy sequences of rationals but as functions from Z to Z10. And honestly, I think something like that could be pretty easily (approximately so. Arithmetic would be a pain in the ass to define correctly because you’d be stuck having to worry about carrying your ones in your construction that’s so tightly bound to the base 10 numbering system) converted to something equivalent to the more accepted notion of the reals. And it’s pretty much how we all intuitively think of numbers anyway.

Their definition of less than also seems to be an attempt at codifying an intuition we all use. None of us ever actually compare reals in our day to day life, unless we’re arguing about 0.999… = 1. Any time we are comparing two numbers that are written out, we start at the leftmost place value and read right until the two numbers differ, and use that place value to determine which of the numbers are bigger. It’s not immediately clear why this intuition wouldn’t work for all reals.

If it is the case that reals are functions from Z to Z10 and if the intuition of less than from finitely long rationals carries over to the infinitely long ones, than it would imply [0, 1) = [0, 0.999] and therefore 1 =/= 0.999…

So unless I am completely wrong about what they are trying to argue, I think it’s less circular and more either they think their intuition is the agreed upon definition, or they think their intuition is better than the agreed upon definition.

I can absolutely imagine infinitesimals being better in engineering contexts. I think both limits and infinitesimals are elegant in their own way. Infinitesimals are elegant in that they make some very specific contexts easier to think about and more intuitive. But limits are elegant in that the same stuff that works for the simpler contexts works the same way for all contexts

I lost my shit at “it is an elementary exercise to show that [0, 1) = [0, 0.999…].” That’s some comedy gold.

I love math cranks because a lot of times they are doing something creative. If you to define something in a nonstandard way to see what comes out of it, fuckin’ do it. It’s fun. It’s just absolutely wild when people do that and then turn around and act like what they’ve done is somehow more correct than assumptions made and established, that have centuries of theory built on top of them.

Who knows? Maybe there’s a universe in which our understanding of the reals was something resembling Z10^Z. I’m not immediately sure how to make sense of arithmetic in this kind of system, but maybe there’s some creativity possible here. And maybe there’s a universe in which calculus has its foundations in infinitesimals. That one feels more likely to me since the early history of calculus did use infinitesimals. Maybe in that universe we just kept thinking about infinitesimals and never developed limits. This would be sad since limits are wayyyy more versitile than infinitesimals and would require every system we have that we want limits in to have infinitesimals as well, but I guess it could have happened that way.

But we have mountains and mountains and mountains of theory built on the standard definitions, and the thought that we should throw all of that away just to be able to make the assertion that 1 isn’t equal to .999… Is soooooo fucking funny

I couldn’t agree more. I eat this shit up. It’s some of my favorite stuff on the internet

meler is depressed yewler I guess

I know I’m usually in here being dorky and silly but

I looooove how soft my skin is

A lot of people canceled at the place I work at so I’m getting paid to sit in my chair and play chess on my phone for several hours. Life is good

Can someone recommend me something to listen to that’s super distorted and gross sounding but in a good way? I really love that kind of sound but I don’t really know where to find it

New account, same suuuuuper gay girl

I almost went for yewler2 but changed at the last second