Mathematics Abuse | Grumpy Old Aussie

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Dec

2009

by Karlston at 9:35 am

Oh God! The same mathematically-challenged morons who think there’s something special about years which end in zero, and falsely thought 2000 was the start of a new millennium, century, and decade are now pushing the same bullshit about the current decade ending at the end of 2009.
For f*cks sake…
The first year AD was 1 AD. [...]

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Jun

2009

by Karlston at 2:47 pm

60 is three times more than 20 isn’t it?
No! It isn’t! And this is one of the most common abuse of basic Mathematics.
Just because 60 divided by 20 is three, doesn’t make it three times more than 20.
Let’s see why…
Firstly, 60 - 20 = 20, so 60 is 40 more than 20.
Secondly, 40 = two [...]

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