Comment on We should count in base four
IggyTheSmidge@kbin.social 8 months ago
OP is clearly a troll:
In fact, trolls traditionally count like this: one, two, three . . . many, and people assume this means they can have no grasp of higher numbers.
They don't realize that many can be a number. As in: one, two,three, many, many-one, many-two, many-three, many many, many many-one, many-many-two, many-many-three, many many many, manymany-many-one, many-many-many-two, many-many-many-three, LOTS.
Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
But everyone knows camels are the better mathematicians, having always used base infinity.
Lack of fingers was another big spur to the development of camel intellect. Human mathematical development had always been held back by everyone’s instinctive tendency, when faced with something really complex in the way of triform polynomials or parametric differentials, to count fingers. Camels started from the word go by counting numbers.
Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 8 months ago
Yes, I’m indeed a traditional Swedish troll. Here I am, I’m the one to the right with red hair on this image:
Me
wabafee@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No idea why but this reminds me of
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intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Probably because black dudes make you think of Swedish stuff