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Origami and Math
TheBoostedBrain writes "I found a nice site that explains a little bit about the math in Origami. Origami is one of my favorite hobbies, but I never thought about it being related to science."
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now u have to wait 20 seconds before hittoing reply?! Now ill never be first post...
oh wait, michael posted this.
Offtopic question deserves an offtopic reply: yep. You think there's 2 of us floating around with this nick?
By the time anyone who would care will read these, I can't imagine that I'll lose more than a couple points. And anyone who would mod me down for a couple of offtopic comments has a small penis. So! Mod me down at the risk of your manhood! BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Origamy, is that like, when you only have a few wives, instead of really a lot like in polygamy? I can see how this relates to math very clearly.
"Abdullah has five camels. How many wives can he afford?"
"If Abu Chacr has five rooms on each floor of a two floor building, how many wives can he fit in before they start to figft? Every wife needs her own room and does not want another wife in an adjacent room."
Wrong, you silly Brit. Just because your ancestors were too stupid to escape a repressive society, does not indicate that your version of English is more proper then mine. As a matter of fact, contray to popular wisdom ( promulgated by British Academia, for reasons I'll cover later), several forms of English, spoken in the New world, are closer to the original forms then anything accepted across the pond. These forms are considered improper by hidebound US Academia also. They are not realy improper, just very archaic. In the 300 or so years since the seeding of English in the Americas, New World and Old World English have each drifted their own ways.
American English has been enriched by influences from all of the waves of immigration that free sociaties attract. Most of its evolution was due to practicality. The changes in British English on the other hand, were driven by class arrogance.
The British have traditionaly used language as a weapon to subdue cultures, starting with the various Celtic peoples. It is no supprise that the British upper classes would use language to differentiate themselves from the lower classes. The private school system was the vehical that transmited the changes. Private schools with rare exception were the domain of the upper class. The instructors at these schools would decide on the latest and greates "proper" way to speak, specificaly to differentiate their students from the common slobs. An intersting point from a linguistic point of view, is that these schools were not in sync with each other. Anyways, the common slobs would soon pick up on the new way to talk in order to sound more educated. That required the Private Boys Schools to change the definition of "proper" English. This does not sound like any way to drive a language. In practice, British English is spoken with far more irregular idiomatic pronunciations then American English.
To be fair, the same phenomina is seen to a much lesser extent in the US. But its worth noting that standard British English is "Kings English" while the standard American English is "Broadcasters English".
Now to the word "maths". There is no such word. It appears to be the creation of some anal instructor in a misguided attempt at regularization. The word "math" is a shortened form of the word "mathamatics" NOT "mathamatic". The later is not found in modern usage as a noun. "Mathamatics" is treated as a collective singular despite the "s". Thus the word "math" is a collective singular, and quite proper. Saying "maths" is like saying "mathamaticses". It also appears that the usage of the word "math" started in the US. Therefor we expect you to use it right!
Why was this modded as a Troll?
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