Some Opponauts are using sigma in their screen name

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform) 04/21/2015 at 22:43 • Filed to: None

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Meanwhile, I’m trying to figure out how the fuck math even works.

MLGCarGuy > TheHondaBro 04/21/2015 at 22:56

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What I refrain from asking my geometry teacher every day: “When do you use geometry in real life? It’s not like YOU actually go to the market and say ‘oh look these shelves are perpendicular you can use this stupid property to figure out the area of the shelves,’ do you?”

Tinfoil Hat in a thunderstorm, now with added diecast > TheHondaBro 04/21/2015 at 22:58

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What's math?

TheHondaBro > MLGCarGuy 04/21/2015 at 23:00

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Use CAD. It's a geometry orgy.

Nibby > TheHondaBro 04/21/2015 at 23:06

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MLGCarGuy > TheHondaBro 04/21/2015 at 23:06

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I strangely like CAD but hate geometry.

TheHondaBro > Nibby 04/21/2015 at 23:11

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Lol the E thingy.

DrJohannVegas > TheHondaBro 04/21/2015 at 23:12

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One of my favorite math quotes (one I use in class often) comes from John von Neumann. He knew a thing or two about math...maybe. I’ll let him say it:

Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

TheOnelectronic > MLGCarGuy 04/21/2015 at 23:15

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Geometry? Eh. Trig? YES.

TheOnelectronic > TheHondaBro 04/21/2015 at 23:15

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Sigmas? Where!?

TheHondaBro > TheOnelectronic 04/21/2015 at 23:18

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They're... Over... There...

Jayhawk Jake > MLGCarGuy 04/21/2015 at 23:20

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I actually do use geometry every day

MLGCarGuy > Jayhawk Jake 04/21/2015 at 23:22

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I can understand some jobs like maybe being an architect use geometry but my teacher makes it sound like geometry can be used in every possible moment of a student’s life.

samssun > TheHondaBro 04/22/2015 at 00:15

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The S thingy. My high school Latin/Greek teacher was livid about the title of “My Big Fat GRSSK Wedding”

samssun > MLGCarGuy 04/22/2015 at 00:24

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Carpenters do. So does anyone who builds a deck, fabricates engine mounts, sets their suspension, or applies for their MBA.

Check this guy’s videos out...tons of geometry:

MLGCarGuy > samssun 04/22/2015 at 00:29

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One of the only times geometry is interesting.

GhostZ > TheHondaBro 04/22/2015 at 01:28

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So is it the day of Sigma?

TheHondaBro > samssun 04/22/2015 at 01:32

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Then why the fuck did the Greekans make it look like our E? Lol they copied us.

E. Julius > samssun 04/22/2015 at 04:00

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What a lame thing to be mad about. It’s not like it isn’t patently obvious what the intended effect is. That’s just being intentionally obtuse. Of course, this is from somebody who uses a sigma in their name.

E. Julius > TheHondaBro 04/22/2015 at 04:00

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Do you even sum bro?

samssun > E. Julius 04/22/2015 at 04:14

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He was a stickler for the classics. And Greek has a perfectly good letter E (Epsilon), it just looks like a boring E.

E. Julius > samssun 04/22/2015 at 04:19

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Exactly, no point in using the boring version.

E. Julius > samssun 04/22/2015 at 04:29

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User name changed to reflect more correct greek orthography.

samssun > E. Julius 04/22/2015 at 04:45

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Only if you say it Yulius. Yulius Ky-sar (like kaiser but ‘s’ instead of ‘z’ sound...did you know caesar, kaiser, and czar/tsar are the same word?)

E. Julius > samssun 04/22/2015 at 04:49

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E. Julius > samssun 04/22/2015 at 04:52

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(and yes, pretty sure that’s like 9th grade history)

samssun > E. Julius 04/22/2015 at 05:06

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Oh come on this is fun. In Latin, ‘V’s make a ‘W’ sound, and ‘I’s are long, so the word for man, “vir” (as in virile) is pronounced “weer”. So even though we take “man” from the Germanic side, Latin shows up in “werewolf” —> weer-wolf —> vir-wolf —> man-wolf.

I bet the Germans say it veer-vulf, for the same reason they stuff their cars full of electric gremlins: to be difficult.

E. Julius > samssun 04/22/2015 at 05:11

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It’s been awhile since I’ve taken a linguistics class, but isn’t the “were” in werewolf derived from an old germanic word that made its way into old english?

samssun > E. Julius 04/22/2015 at 06:26

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Looks like “were” made it through German, Dutch, and even Gaelic, but all traces back to the Latin “vir”.

E. Julius > samssun 04/22/2015 at 06:30

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Hooray!

Jayhawk Jake > MLGCarGuy 04/22/2015 at 07:32

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Considering I work 40+ hours a week I would say that geometry is used in most of my life.

newsmctado > DrJohannVegas 04/22/2015 at 10:56

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Of topic slightly, but still nerdy: “There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”

DrJohannVegas > newsmctado 04/22/2015 at 11:04

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My problem with that one is that it works in text, but when you say it, you have to give it away before the punchline.

newsmctado > DrJohannVegas 04/22/2015 at 11:09

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Agreed. I saw it as a t-shirt, and thought it was brilliant.