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Is Math A Sport?
theodp writes "The close of the International Mathematical Olympiad prompts Slate to question if math is a sport, wondering if mathletes might someday compete in the Olympics alongside track stars and basketball players."
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If curling is a sport, anything is possible.
If math is a sport then what isn't a sport.
Bowling.
Math should be a sport as much as 0 equals 1.
I would like to see a mathematical proof written to support the claim.
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I think the first thing they have to do if they're looking for respect and recognition is to stop calling themselves "mathletes".
Ew.
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And in addition:
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Oh, my, Is my math degree showing?
"Go to CNN [for a] spell-checked, fact-checked summary" -- CmdrTaco
If math is a sport then what isn't a sport. Fuck. [emphasis mine]
You said it. That is something that probably won't be in the Olympics for a long while.
In your definition of sports, beer-drinking is a sport too:
(1) you can train for it, and you actually get better with training.
(2) Your beer-drinking skill can absolutely be measured.
(3) Some people have a gift for beer-drinking.
Most of all, beer-drinking is just fun !
Same reasoning goes for sex, BTW.
In all real sports you can reasonable expect someone to get injured.
If someone isn't going to get hurt.. why bother!
I'd like to see you play defense in bowling. Or golf. I'll bring the camera, you bring the ambulance.
Are pros surrounded by eager young women in every city? FAIL
Bob Costas can tell you more than everything you wanted to know about it? FAIL
Participants use performance-enhancing drugs? PASS
Therefore math is not a sport
You have to be able to stop someone else from scoring.
Isn't that the definition of masturbation?
"There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter," Jeeves, (Jeeves and the Impending Doom)
0 does equal 1, for very small values of 1.
yes, you are spot on. the fact that math is both interesting and useful disqualifies it from being a sport :)
What can you defensivly do to stop someone in math?
Same as what you do in hockey, check them when they're running for more paper.
I see math as a team sport. You have the 2 people who do the calculations, 2 go-fors (pens, paper, research material), and 2 defense men. Anyone outside the crease (safe-zone) is fair game.
You may also attempt distractions, so long as you do not enter their safe-zone.
Rod Taylor
It probably would if Brazil had anything to do with it.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Maybe, but not a team sport, because you can win single-handedly.
Yeah, but so is eating hotdogs and chasing monkeys while covered in tar. I'd say take anything from Japan with a grain of salt. :)
Step 1: Assume Math is a sport.
Step 2: If Math is a sport, all Math nerds are athletes.
Step 3: All atheletes are jocks (remember high school?).
Step 4: All jocks beat up math nerds (again, re: high school).
Conclusion: All Math nerds beat up math nerds.
But: I am a math nerd, and have never beaten anyone up (including myself or any another math nerd).
This is a contradiction.
Ergo, Math isn't a sport.
QED
There are only three true sports Fishing, Mountain climbing and Car racing, the rest are merely games.
..........FULL STOP.
I nominate you to play defense.
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
Imagine the RATINGS!
XXX, I'd imagine.
I got my Linux laptop at System76.
I should smash your face in with my liquid core bowling ball for such an insolent comment!
You can't divide by 0.
With an "I can't" attitude like that, you'll never succeed at this sport!